Song of Solomon 5:7-16

⁷The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

⁸I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

⁹What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?

¹⁰My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.

¹¹His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.

¹²His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed.

¹³His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

¹⁴His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.

¹⁵His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.

¹⁶His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.