Douay Rheims Bible

Song of Solomon 4

The Song of Songs, Which is Solomon's

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Chapter 5

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  Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.  

 

 

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2


 

  I sleep, and my heart watcheth; the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.  

 

 

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3


 

  I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?  

 

 

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4


 

  My beloved put his hand through the key hole, and my bowels were moved at his touch.  

 

 

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5


 

  I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.  

 

 

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6


 

  I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved: but he had turned aside, and was gone. My soul melted when he spoke: I sought him, and found him not: I called, and he did not answer me.  

 

 

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7


 

  The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.  

 

 

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8


 

  I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.  

 

 

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9


 

  What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, O thou most beautiful among women? what manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, that thou hast so adjured us?  

 

 

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10


 

  My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.  

 

 

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11


 

  His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven.  

 

 

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12


 

  His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.  

 

 

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13


 

  His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrb.  

 

 

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14


 

  His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory, set with sapphires.  

 

 

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15


 

  His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold. His form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars.  

 

 

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16


 

  His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.  

 

 

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17


 

  Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou most beautiful among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside, and we will seek him with thee?  

 

 

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