Labels:text | screenshot OCR: The Song of Songs The Bible (4th century B.C.E.) Revised Standard Version, adapted & excerpted The Shulamite (2): By night on my bed I await him whom my soul loves; I longed for him, but I found him not. O that his left hand were under my head, And that his right hand embraced me! Sustain me with raisins, comfort me with apples: For I am sick with love. Come, let us go forth into the fields, let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened, and the pomegranates are in bloom, and the mandrakes give forth fragrance. There I will give you my love. I was asleep, but my heart awoke: it is the voice of my lover that knocks, saying, "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfection: For my head is filled with dew, and my loc ...