Verse 3
Song of Songs 5:3
World English Bible, British Edition
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I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on?
I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
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Chapter 5 Context
1
I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride.
I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;
I have eate...
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2
I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
It is the voice of my beloved who knocks:
“Open to me, my sist...
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3
I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on?
I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
4
My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening.
My heart pounded for him.
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5
I rose up to open for my beloved.
My hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with liquid myrrh,
on the...
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6
I opened to my beloved;
but my beloved left, and had gone away.
My heart went out when he spoke.
I l...
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7
The watchmen who go about the city found me.
They beat me.
They bruised me.
The keepers of the walls...
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8
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
If you find my beloved,
that you tell him that I am faint with...
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9
How is your beloved better than another beloved,
you fairest amongst women?
How is your beloved bett...
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10
My beloved is white and ruddy.
The best amongst ten thousand.
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11
His head is like the purest gold.
His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
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12
His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks,
washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
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13
His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.
His lips are like lilies, dropping liqu...
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14
His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl.
His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires...
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15
His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.
His appearance is like Lebanon, exc...
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16
His mouth is sweetness;
yes, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
dau...
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