My beloved is white and ruddy.
The best among ten thousand.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Song of Solomon 5:10 in context
Song of Solomon 5:7–13
7
The watchmen who go about the city found me.
They beat me.
They bruised me.
The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
8
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
If you find my beloved,
that you tell him that I am faint with love.
9
How is your beloved better than another beloved,
you fairest among women?
How is your beloved better than another beloved,
that you do so adjure us?
10
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My beloved is white and ruddy.
The best among ten thousand.
11
His head is like the purest gold.
His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
12
His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks,
washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
13
His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.
His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
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