I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride:
I have gathered my myrrh with my {Or, balsam}spice;
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
I have drunk my wine with my milk.
Eat, O friends;
Drink, yea, drink abundantly, {Or, of love}O beloved.
I {Or, sleep, but my heart waketh}was asleep, but my heart waked:
It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying,
Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my {Hebrew: perfect.}undefiled;
For my head is filled with dew,
My locks with the drops of the night.
I have put off my garment; how shall I put it on?
I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door,
And my {Hebrew: bowels.}heart was moved for him.
I rose up to open to my beloved;
And my hands dropped with myrrh,
And my fingers with liquid myrrh,
Upon the handles of the bolt.
I opened to my beloved;
But my beloved had {Or, turned away}withdrawn himself, and was gone.
My soul {Hebrew: went forth.}had failed me when he spake:
I sought him, but I could not find him;
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
The watchmen that go about the city found me,
They smote me, they wounded me;
The keepers of the walls took away my {Or, veil}mantle from me.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
If ye find my beloved,
{Hebrew: What will ye tell him? That &c.}That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
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 adjure us?
My beloved is white and ruddy,
{Hebrew: Marked out by a banner.}The chiefest among ten thousand.
His head is as the most fine gold;
His locks are {Or, curling}bushy, and black as a raven.
His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks,
Washed with milk, and {Or, sitting by full streams}fitly set.
His cheeks are as a bed of {Or, balsam}spices,
As {Or, towers of perfumes}banks of sweet herbs:
His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
His hands are as {Or, cylinders}rings of gold set with {Or, topaz}beryl:
His body is as {Or, bright ivory}ivory work {Or, encrusted}overlaid with sapphires.
His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:
His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
His {Or, speech Hebrew: palate.}mouth is most sweet;
Yea, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.
Querverweise zu Hohelied 5,11 Hld 5,11
Thou, O king, art king of kings, unto whom the God of heaven hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;
Thy head upon thee is like Carmel,And the hair of thy head like purple;The king is held captive in the tresses thereof.
and wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens hath he given into thy hand, and hath made thee to rule over them all: thou art the head of gold.
I beheld till thrones were {Or, cast down}placed, and one that was ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and the wheels thereof burning fire.
far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this {Greek: age.}world, but also in that which is to come:
And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,