1 LOVER: I come into my garden, my sister, my promised bride, I pick my myrrh and balsam, I eat my honey and my honeycomb, I drink my wine and my milk. POET: Eat, friends, and drink, drink deep, my dearest friends.
2 BELOVED: I sleep, but my heart is awake. I hear my love knocking. 'Open to me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my hair with the drops of night.'
3 -'I have taken off my tunic, am I to put it on again? I have washed my feet, am I to dirty them again?'
4 My love thrust his hand through the hole in the door; I trembled to the core of my being.
5 Then I got up to open to my love, myrrh ran off my hands, pure myrrh off my fingers, on to the handle of the bolt.
6 I opened to my love, but he had turned and gone. My soul failed at his flight, I sought but could not find him, I called, but he did not answer.
7 The watchmen met me, those who go on their rounds in the city. They beat me, they wounded me, they took my cloak away from me: those guardians of the ramparts!
8 I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, if you should find my love, what are you to tell him? -That I am sick with love!
9 CHORUS: What makes your lover better than other lovers, O loveliest of women? What makes your lover better than other lovers, to put us under such an oath?
10 BELOVED: My love is fresh and ruddy, to be known among ten thousand.
11 His head is golden, purest gold, his locks are palm fronds and black as the raven.
12 His eyes are like doves beside the water-courses, bathing themselves in milk, perching on a fountain-rim.
13 His cheeks are beds of spices, banks sweetly scented. His lips are lilies, distilling pure myrrh.
14 His hands are golden, rounded, set with jewels of Tarshish. His belly a block of ivory covered with sapphires.
15 His legs are alabaster columns set in sockets of pure gold. His appearance is that of Lebanon, unrivalled as the cedars.
16 His conversation is sweetness itself, he is altogether lovable. Such is my love, such is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Versículos relacionados com Song of Solomon, 5:
Songs 5 is a chapter that describes a dream of the beloved about the beloved and the search she does for him. Through poetic language, the chapter presents themes such as love, beauty, search and longing. Following are five verses related to these themes:
Proverbs 8:17: "I love those who love me, and whoever seeks me finds me." This verse talks about the search for wisdom and how important it is to love and look for it.
Psalm 63:1: "O God, you are my God, I seek you intensely; my soul thirsty for you! All my being longs for you, in a dry, exhausted and without water." This verse portrays the pursuit of God as a necessity of the soul, which longs for Him.
1 Peter 1:8: "You love Him, even without having seen Him; and though you do not see you now, believe in Him and rejoice with unspeakable and glorious joy," This verse speaks about faith in God, and how it is possible love him even without seeing him.
Isaiah 44:20: "He feeds on gray. His deceived heart deviates him, so that he cannot rid his soul, nor say, Is there no lie on my right hand?" This verse describes how the deceived heart can lead someone to feed on worthless things, like gray, and move away from the truth.
Jeremiah 2:32: "Can a virgin forget about his jewel, or a bride his or her or her ornament? However, my people forgot me for endless days." This verse shows how easy it is to forget God, even when He is the most valuable jewel we have.
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