² Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—
    for your love^(A) is more delightful than wine.^(B)
3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;^(C)
    your name^(D) is like perfume poured out.
    No wonder the young women^(E) love you!
⁴ Take me away with you—let us hurry!
    Let the king bring me into his chambers.^(F)

We rejoice and delight^(G) in you^[b];
    we will praise your love^(H) more than wine.

How right they are to adore you!

¹⁴ My beloved^(A) is to me a cluster of henna^(B) blossoms
    from the vineyards of En Gedi.^(C)

³ Like an apple^[a] tree among the trees of the forest
    is my beloved^(A) among the young men.
I delight^(B) to sit in his shade,
    and his fruit is sweet to my taste.^(C)

¹⁶ My beloved is mine and I am his;^(A)
    he browses among the lilies.^(B)
17 Until the day breaks
    and the shadows flee,^(C)
turn, my beloved,^(D)
    and be like a gazelle
or like a young stag^(E)
    on the rugged hills.^[a](F)

¹⁶ Awake, north wind,
    and come, south wind!
Blow on my garden,^(A)
    that its fragrance^(B) may spread everywhere.
Let my beloved^(C) come into his garden
    and taste its choice fruits.^(D)

5 I have come into my garden,^(A) my sister, my bride;^(B)
    I have gathered my myrrh with my spice.
I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey;
    I have drunk my wine and my milk.^(C)

Eat, friends, and drink;
    drink your fill of love.

² I slept but my heart was awake.
    Listen! My beloved is knocking:
“Open to me, my sister, my darling,
    my dove,^(D) my flawless^(E) one.^(F)
My head is drenched with dew,
    my hair with the dampness of the night.”

⁴ My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening;
    my heart began to pound for him.
⁵ I arose to open for my beloved,
    and my hands dripped with myrrh,^(A)
my fingers with flowing myrrh,
    on the handles of the bolt.
⁶ I opened for my beloved,^(B)
    but my beloved had left; he was gone.^(C)
    My heart sank at his departure.^[a]
I looked^(D) for him but did not find him.
    I called him but he did not answer.