Song of Solomon 5:8-16
World English Bible
8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
If you find my beloved,
that you tell him that I am faint with love.
Friends
9 How is your beloved better than another beloved,
you fairest among women?
How is your beloved better than another beloved,
that you do so adjure us?
Beloved
10 My beloved is white and ruddy.
The best among ten thousand.
11 His head is like the purest gold.
His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks,
washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.
His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
14 His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl.
His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
15 His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.
His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16 His mouth is sweetness;
yes, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Solomon 5:8-16
American Standard Version
8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
If ye find my beloved,
[a]That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved,
O thou fairest among women?
What is thy beloved more than another beloved,
That thou dost so adjure us?
10 My beloved is white and ruddy,
[b]The chiefest among ten thousand.
11 His head is as the most fine gold;
His locks are [c]bushy, and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks,
Washed with milk, and [d]fitly set.
13 His cheeks are as a bed of [e]spices,
As [f]banks of sweet herbs:
His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
14 His hands are as [g]rings of gold set with [h]beryl:
His body is as [i]ivory work [j]overlaid with sapphires.
15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:
His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16 His [k]mouth is most sweet;
Yea, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 5:8 Hebrew What will ye tell him? That etc.
- Song of Solomon 5:10 Hebrew Marked out by a banner.
- Song of Solomon 5:11 Or, curling
- Song of Solomon 5:12 Or, sitting by full streams
- Song of Solomon 5:13 Or, balsam
- Song of Solomon 5:13 Or, towers of perfumes
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Or, cylinders
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Or, topaz
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Or, bright ivory
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Or, encrusted
- Song of Solomon 5:16 Or, speech. Hebrew palate.
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