| 1 | 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. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved | So 4:16 So 6:2 So 6:11 So 8:13 Isa 5:1 Isa 51:3 Isa 58:11 Isa 61:11 Jn 14:21-23 |
| 2 | I 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, My hair with the dampness of the night. | So 3:1 So 7:9 Dn 8:18 Zc 4:1 Mt 25:4 Mt 25:5 Mt 26:40 Mt 26:41 Lk 9:32 Eph 5:14 |
| 3 | I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them? | Pr 3:28 Pr 13:4 Pr 22:13 Mt 25:5 Mt 26:38-43 Lk 11:7 Ro 7:22 Ro 7:23 |
| 4 | My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him. | So 1:4 Ps 110:3 Ac 16:14 2Co 8:1 2Co 8:2 2Co 8:16 Php 2:13 |
| 5 | I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, My fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the lock. | So 5:2 Lk 12:36 Eph 3:17 Rev 3:20 |
| 6 | I opened to my beloved; But my beloved left; 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. | Ps 30:7 Isa 8:17 Isa 12:1 Isa 50:2 Isa 54:6-8 Hos 5:6 Hos 5:15 Mt 15:22-28 Rev 3:19 |
| 7 | The 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. | So 3:3 Isa 6:10 Isa 6:11 Hos 9:7 Hos 9:8 Ac 20:29 Ac 20:30 2Co 11:13 |
| 8 | I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends | So 2:7 So 8:4 |
| 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 | Isa 53:2 Mt 16:13-17 Mt 21:10 Jn 1:14 2Co 4:3-6 |
| 10 | My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand. | So 2:1 Dt 32:31 Ps 45:17 Isa 66:19 Heb 7:26 |
| 11 | His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven. | Dn 2:37 Dn 2:38 Eph 1:21 Eph 1:22 |
| 12 | His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, Washed with milk, mounted like jewels. | So 1:15 So 4:1 Heb 4:13 |
| 13 | His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. | So 1:10 Isa 50:6 |
| 14 | His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires. | Ex 15:6 Ps 44:4-7 Ps 99:4 Isa 9:7 Isa 52:13 |
| 15 | His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. | Rev 1:15 |
| 16 | His mouth is sweetness; Yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, Daughters of Jerusalem. Friends | So 1:2 Ps 19:10 Ps 119:103 Jer 15:16 |
