雅歌 5
我寻找他，却寻不见
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. 2I was asleep, but my heart waked: 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, my locks with the drops of the night. 3I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door], and my heart was moved for him. 5I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt. 6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and ]was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7The 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. 8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love. 9What 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?
10My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. 11His head is [as ]the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, [and ]black as a raven. 12His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks; washed with milk, [and ]fitly set.
13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs: his lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. 14His hands are [as ]rings of gold set with beryl: his body is [as ]ivory work overlaid [with ]sapphires. 15His legs are [as ]pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.