Verse 9
Song of Songs 5:9
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Why is the one you love better than any other, most beautiful of women? In what way is the one you love better than any other that we should promise you that?
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Chapter 5 Context
1
I enter my garden, my sister, my bride! I gather myrrh with my spice. I eat my honeycomb with my hon...
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2
Though I was asleep, my mind was racing. I heard my love knocking, and calling out, “Please open the...
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3
I replied, “I've already got undressed. I don't have to get dressed again, do I? I've already washed...
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4
My love thrust his hand into the opening. Deep inside I longed for him.
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5
I got up to let my love in. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, as I grabbed...
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6
I opened up to my love, but he had left—he was gone! I was crushed as a result. I looked for him but...
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7
The watchmen found me as they went through the city. They beat me, they hurt me, and stole my cloak,...
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8
Women of Jerusalem, promise me if you find my love and wonder what you should tell him, tell him I a...
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9
Why is the one you love better than any other, most beautiful of women? In what way is the one you l...
10
My love has dazzling good looks and is very fit—better than ten thousand others!
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11
His head is like the finest gold, his hair is wavy and black as the raven.
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12
His eyes are like doves beside springs of water, washed with milk and mounted like sparkling jewels.
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13
His cheeks are like a flowerbed of spices that produces fragrance. His lips are like lilies, drippin...
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14
His arms are round bars of gold inlaid with jewels. His abdomen is like carved ivory inlaid with lap...
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15
His legs are columns of alabaster set on bases of gold. He looks strong, like the mighty cedars of L...
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16
His mouth is the sweetest ever; he is totally desirable! This is my love, my friend, women of Jerusa...
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