Song of Solomon 5

1I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.Cross-references: Deut 16:13 · Deut 26:10 · 2Chr 31:6 · Ps 16:3 · Ps 147:11 · Prov 9:5 · +30 more

2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”Cross-references: Gen 29:20 · Gen 31:40 · Ps 24:7 · Ps 81:10 · Ps 119:1 · Prov 23:26 · +30 more

3I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?Cross-references: Prov 3:28 · Prov 13:4 · Prov 22:13 · Matt 25:5 · Matt 26:38 · Luke 11:7 · +1 more

4My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.Cross-references: Gen 43:30 · 1Ki 3:26 · Ps 110:3 · Song 1:4 · Isa 26:8 · Acts 16:14 · +4 more

5I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.Cross-references: Song 3:6 · Song 4:13 · Song 5:2 · Song 5:13 · Luke 12:36 · 2Cor 7:7 · +3 more

6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.Cross-references: Gen 42:28 · 1Sam 28:6 · 2Sam 16:10 · Ps 22:1 · Ps 28:1 · Ps 30:7 · +24 more

7The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.Cross-references: Ps 141:5 · Song 3:3 · Song 8:11 · Isa 6:10 · Isa 62:6 · Hos 6:5 · +16 more

8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.Cross-references: Ps 42:1 · Ps 63:1 · Ps 77:1 · Ps 119:81 · Song 2:5 · Song 2:7 · +5 more

9How 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?Cross-references: Ps 45:13 · Ps 87:3 · Song 1:8 · Song 6:1 · Song 6:9 · Isa 53:2 · +4 more

10My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.Cross-references: Deut 32:31 · 1Sam 16:12 · Ps 45:2 · Ps 45:17 · Song 2:1 · Isa 10:18 · +7 more

11His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.Cross-references: Song 5:2 · Song 7:5 · Dan 2:37 · Dan 7:9 · Eph 1:21 · Rev 1:14

12His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.Cross-references: Song 1:15 · Song 4:1 · Heb 4:13

13His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.Cross-references: Ps 4:6 · Ps 27:4 · Ps 45:2 · Ps 89:15 · Song 1:10 · Song 2:1 · +8 more

14His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.Cross-references: Ex 15:6 · Ex 24:10 · Ex 28:20 · Ex 39:13 · Ps 44:4 · Ps 99:4 · +6 more

15His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.Cross-references: Ex 26:19 · Judg 13:6 · 1Ki 4:33 · Ps 92:12 · Song 2:14 · Song 4:11 · +8 more

16His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.Cross-references: Ps 19:10 · Ps 45:2 · Ps 89:6 · Ps 119:103 · Ps 148:13 · Song 1:2 · +15 more