The Third Quest - Love Sought & Found in the City (3:6 - 5:1)
(d. Their Wedding Day -- 3:6 - 5:1)

Solomon (5:1a)

¹ I am come into my garden,
my sister, my spouse:
I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
I have drunk my wine with my milk:

Chorus (5:1b)

eat, O friends; drink,
yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

The Fourth Quest - Love Sought & Found in the City (5:2 - 7:11)
(c'. Woman's Night Search for the Man -- 5:2 - 7:11)

Abishag (5:2-8)

² I sleep,
but my heart waketh:
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,
and my locks with the drops of the night.
³ I have put off [this] my coat;
how shall I put it on?
I have washed [these] my feet;
how shall I defile them?
⁴ My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door,
and my bowels were moved for him.
⁵ I rose up to open to my beloved;
and my hands dropped with myrrh,
and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh,
upon the handles of the lock.
⁶ I opened to my beloved;
but my beloved had withdrawn himself,
and was gone:
my soul failed when he spake:
I sought him,
but I could not find him;
I called him,
but he gave me no answer.
⁷ The watchmen that went about the city
found me,
they smote me,
they wounded me;
the keepers of the walls
took away [this] my veil from [over me].
⁸ I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
if ye find [this] my beloved,
that ye tell him,
that I am sick of love.

Chorus (5:9)

⁹ What is thy beloved more than another beloved,
O thou fairest among women?
what is thy beloved more than another beloved,
that thou dost so charge us?

Abishag (5:10-16)

¹⁰ My beloved is white and ruddy,
the chiefest among ten thousand.
¹¹ His head is as the most fine gold,
his locks are bushy,
and black as a raven.
¹² His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters,
washed with milk, and fitly set.
¹³ His cheeks are as a bed of spices,
as sweet flowers:
his lips like lilies,
dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
¹⁴ His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl:
his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
¹⁵ His legs are as pillars of marble,
set upon sockets of fine gold:
his countenance is as Lebanon,
excellent as the cedars.
¹⁶ His mouth is most sweet:
yea, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved,
and this is my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.