Love’s satisfaction
Bridegroom
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📚✭I 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.
Eat, O friends!
Drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved!
Love weak, failing and reviving
Bride
2 📚✭I sleep, but my heart is awake.
It is the voice of my beloved
who knocks, saying,
“Open to me, my sister, my love,
my dove, my undefiled,
for my head is drenched with dew,
and my locks with the moisture
of the night”.
3 📚I have taken off my robe.
How can I put it back on?
I have washed my feet.
How can I soil them again?
4 📚My beloved put his hand in through
the hole in the door,
and my inmost being was moved for him.
5 📚I got up to open to my beloved,
and my hands dripped with myrrh,
and my fingers with sweet smelling
myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
6 📚I opened to my beloved;
but my beloved had turned away
and was gone.
My soul went out to him as he spoke.
I looked for him, but I could not find him.
I called to him, but he gave me no answer.
7 📚✭The watchmen who went around the city
found me.
They struck me; they wounded me.
The guards of the walls took my veil
away from me.
8 📚I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
if you find my beloved, will you not
tell him that I am sick with love✭?
Friends
9 📚What is your beloved more than
another beloved,
O you most beautiful of women?
What is your beloved more than another
beloved, that you charge us so?
Bride
10 📚✭My beloved is radiant and ruddy,
the chief among ten thousand.
11 📚His head is like the most fine gold.
The locks of his hair are bushy,
black as a raven.
12 📚His eyes are like the eyes of doves by
the streams of water,
washed with milk and fitly set.
13 📚His cheeks are like a bed of spices,
like sweet flowers.
His lips like lilies, dripping sweet smelling myrrh.
14 📚His hands are like gold rods set
with beryl.
His waist is like bright ivory
inlaid with sapphires.
15 📚His legs are like pillars of marble,
set on sockets of fine gold.
His face is like Lebanon,
excellent as the cedars.
16 📚✭His mouth is very sweet.
Yes, he is altogether delightful.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend✭,
O daughters of Jerusalem.