¹ I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse:
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, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

² I sleep, but my heart waketh:
It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying,
Open to me, my sister, my love,
My dove, my undefiled:
For my head is filled with dew,
And my locks with the drops of the night.
³ I have put off my coat;
How shall I put it on?
I have washed my feet;
How shall I defile them?
⁴ My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door,
And my bowels were moved for him.
⁵ I rose up to open to my beloved;
And my hands dropped with myrrh,
And my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh,
Upon the handles of the lock.
⁶ I opened to my beloved;
But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone:
My soul failed when he spake:
I sought him, but I could not find him;
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
⁷ The watchmen that went about the city found me,
They smote me, they wounded me;
The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
⁸ I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
If ye find my beloved,
That ye tell him,
that I am sick of 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 charge us?

¹⁰ My beloved is white and ruddy,
The chiefest among ten thousand.
¹¹ His head is as the most fine gold,
His locks are bushy,
And black as a raven.
¹² His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters,
Washed with milk, and fitly set.
¹³ His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers:
His lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
¹⁴ His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl:
His belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
¹⁵ His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:
His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
¹⁶ His mouth is most sweet:
Yea, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.