The Torment of Separation
5:1 I have 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.
5:2 I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, 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.
5:3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
5:4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
5:5 I got 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.
5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soulנַפְשִׁי
Transliteration: nap̄šî Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: my soul, myself, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite, my mind, my living being, my desire, my emotion, my passion For more info click here failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
5:7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they struck me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
5:8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, if ya’ll find my beloved, that ya’ll tell him, that I am sick with love.
5:9 What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women? what is your beloved more than another beloved, that you does so charge us?
Admiration by the Bride
5:10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
5:11 His head is like the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
5:12 His eyes are like the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
5:13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices, like sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
5:14 His hands are like gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
5:15 His legs are like pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his appearance is like Lebanonכַּלְּבָנוֹן
Transliteration: kallᵊḇānôn Lebanon = “whiteness” a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel – For more info click here, excellent as the cedars.
5:16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here.
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