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## Song of Solomon 5:2-16 in Context (Verses 1–16 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/1) 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 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/2) ¶ 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 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/3) I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
 
 [4 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/4) My beloved put in his hand by the hole *of the door*, and my bowels were moved for him.*
 
 [5 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/5) 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 [6 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/6) I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, *and* was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.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 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/7) 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 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/8) I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I *am* sick of love.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/9) ¶ 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 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/10) My beloved *is* white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.*
 
 [11 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/11) His head *is as* the most fine gold, his locks *are* bushy, *and* black as a raven.*
 
 [12 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/12) His eyes *are* as *the eyes* of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, *and* fitly set.*
 
 [13 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/13) His cheeks *are* as a bed of spices, *as* sweet flowers: his lips *like* lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.*
 
 [14 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/14) His hands *are as* gold rings set with the beryl: his belly *is as* bright ivory overlaid *with* sapphires.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/15) His legs *are as* pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance *is* as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/16) His mouth *is* most sweet: yea, he *is* altogether lovely. This *is* my beloved, and this *is* my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.*
 
[Song of Solomon 4](/kjv/song-of-solomon/4) [Song of Solomon 6](/kjv/song-of-solomon/6)

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