Song of Solomon 4:12–5:1

12 “A garden locked is my sister, my bride,

A 1rock garden locked, a aspring bsealed up.

13 “Your shoots are an 1aorchard of bpomegranates

With cchoice fruits, dhenna with nard plants,

14 aNard and saffron, calamus and bcinnamon,

With all the trees of cfrankincense,

dMyrrh and aloes, along with all the finest 1spices.

15 “You are a garden spring,

A well of 1afresh water,

And streams flowing from Lebanon.”

16 “1Awake, O north wind,

And come, wind of the south;

Make my agarden breathe out fragrance,

Let its 2spices 3be wafted abroad.

May bmy beloved come into his garden

And eat its cchoice fruits!”

Chapter 5

The Torment of Separation

1 “1I have acome into my garden, bmy sister, my bride;

I have gathered my cmyrrh along with my balsam.

I have eaten my honeycomb 2and my dhoney;

I have edrunk my wine 2and my milk.

Eat, ffriends;

Drink and 3imbibe deeply, O lovers.”