| English Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love! | 1I have come to 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, and drink; drink freely, O beloved. |
| 2I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.” | 2I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.” |
| 3I had put off my garment; how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet; how could I soil them? | 3I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again? |
| 4My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me. | 4My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him. |
| 5I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt. | 5I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt. |
| 6I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer. | 6I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer. |
| 7The watchmen found me as they went about in the city; they beat me, they bruised me, they took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls. | 7I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls. |
| 8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love. | 8O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love. |
| 9What is your beloved more than another beloved, O most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us? | 9How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so? |
| 10My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand. | 10My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand. |
| 11His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven. | 11His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven. |
| 12His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool. | 12His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels. |
| 13His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh. | 13His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh. |
| 14His arms are rods of gold, set with jewels. His body is polished ivory, bedecked with sapphires. | 14His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires. |
| 15His legs are alabaster columns, set on bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars. | 15His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars. |
| 16His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. | 16His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. |
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