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Song of Songs 5 JPS Tanakh (1917)

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1 I am come into 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; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. 2 I sleep, but my heart waketh; Hark! my beloved knocketh: 'Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.' 3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my heart was moved for him. 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with flowing myrrh, upon the handles of the bar. 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had turned away, and was gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 7 The watchmen that go about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me. 8 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, what will ye tell him? that I am love-sick.' 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 adjure us?' 10 'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten thousand. 11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are curled, and black as a raven. 12 His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks; washed with milk, and fitly set. 13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs; his lips are as lilies, dropping with flowing myrrh. 14 His hands are as rods of gold set with beryl; his body is as polished ivory overlaid with sapphires. 15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold; his aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. 16 His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.'

Cross references (16)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Song of Songs 6:2; Song of Songs 4:16; Revelation 22:17; Song of Songs 4:9–14; Isaiah 55:1–2
  2. 2 Revelation 3:20; Song of Songs 2:14; Song of Songs 6:9; Zechariah 4:1; Psalm 119:1
  3. 3 Luke 11:7; Romans 7:22–23; Proverbs 22:13; Matthew 26:38–43; Proverbs 3:28
  4. 4 Philippians 2:13; Song of Songs 1:4; Acts 16:14; 2 Corinthians 8:16; 1 Kings 3:26
  5. 5 Song of Songs 5:13; Ephesians 3:17; Song of Songs 4:13–14; Revelation 3:20; 2 Corinthians 7:9–11
  6. 6 Song of Songs 5:2; Revelation 3:19; Hosea 5:15; Hosea 5:6; Isaiah 58:2
  7. 7 Song of Songs 3:3; Matthew 23:2; Hosea 6:5; Psalm 141:5; John 16:2
  8. 8 Song of Songs 2:5; Song of Songs 2:7; Psalm 42:1–3; Song of Songs 3:5; Galatians 6:1–2
  9. 9 Song of Songs 6:1; Song of Songs 1:8; Song of Songs 6:9–10; Psalm 45:13; Isaiah 53:2
  10. 10 Psalm 45:2; Psalm 45:17; Song of Songs 2:1; Philippians 2:9–11; Hebrews 7:26
  11. 11 Song of Songs 7:5; Revelation 1:14; Song of Songs 5:2; Daniel 7:9; Ephesians 1:21–22
  12. 12 Song of Songs 4:1; Song of Songs 1:15; Hebrews 4:13
  13. 13 Song of Songs 1:10; Song of Songs 2:1; Song of Songs 6:2; Song of Songs 4:11; Psalm 89:15
  14. 14 Exodus 24:10; Isaiah 54:11; Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 52:13; Ezekiel 1:16
  15. 15 1 Kings 4:33; Revelation 1:15–16; Acts 2:28; Hosea 14:7; Psalm 92:12
  16. 16 Psalm 45:2; Song of Songs 7:9; Psalm 119:103; Galatians 2:20; Song of Songs 1:16

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 5:1 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIII)

    I am come into My garden, My sister, My spouse; (now in the place where He was crucified was a garden;) and what takest Thou thence?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  2. Quotes verse 5:2 Basil of Caesarea, Hexaemeron (Homily VII)

    Filled with these thoughts may you, even in sleep, enjoy the pleasure of the day, so that you may be permitted to say, "I sleep but my heart waketh," meditating day and night upon the law of the Lord, to Whom be glory and power world without end.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)

  3. Quotes verse 5:12 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XVII)

    … begotten, and for forgiveness of sins; even as it was emblematically foretold that Christ should be thus manifested in the appearance of His eyes; for in the Canticles she cries concerning the Bridegroom, and says, Thine eyes are as doves by the rivers of water.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)