Verse 1

I have 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. Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Drikk og bli beruset av kjærlighet, mine kjære venner.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Jeg har kommet inn i hagen min, min søster, min brud. Jeg har samlet min myrra med mitt krydder; jeg har spist honningkaken min med min honning; jeg har drukket vinen min med melken min. Spis, kjære venner, drikk, ja, drikk til fulle, dere elskede.

• Norsk King James

  spis, venner; drikk, ja, drikk rikelig, min elskede.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg er kommet, min søster, min brud, inn i min hage. Jeg har samlet min myrra med mine krydder, jeg har spist min honningkake med min honning, jeg har drukket min vin med min melk. Spis, venner! Drikk og bli beruset, mine kjære!

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Jeg er kommet til min hage, min søster, min brud. Jeg har høstet min myrra med mine krydder. Jeg har spist min honning med min honningkake. Jeg har drukket min vin med min melk. Spis, mine venner, drikk og bli beruset, mine kjære.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Jeg har kommet inn i min hage, min søster, min brud: Jeg har samlet min myrra med mine krydder; jeg har spist min honningkake med min honning; jeg har drukket min vin med min melk: spis, mine venner; drikk, ja, drikk rikelig, o elskede.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Jeg har trådt inn i min hage, min søster, min hustru; jeg har samlet min myrra med mitt krydder, jeg har spist min honningkake med min honning, og jeg har drukket mitt vin med min melk. Spis, o venner, og drikk, ja, drikk rikelig, o elskede.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Jeg har kommet inn i min hage, min søster, min brud: Jeg har samlet min myrra med mine krydder; jeg har spist min honningkake med min honning; jeg har drukket min vin med min melk: spis, mine venner; drikk, ja, drikk rikelig, o elskede.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Jeg har kommet til min hage, min søster, brud. Jeg har plukket min myrra med mine krydder, jeg har spist min honningkake med min honning, jeg har drukket min vin med min melk. Spis, venner, drikk og bli beruset, elskede!

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I have entered my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spices. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, and drink; be intoxicated with love.

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Song of Songs.5.1", "source": "בָּ֣אתִי לְגַנִּי֮ אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּה֒ אָרִ֤יתִי מוֹרִי֙ עִם־בְּשָׂמִ֔י אָכַ֤לְתִּי יַעְרִי֙ עִם־דִּבְשִׁ֔י שָׁתִ֥יתִי יֵינִ֖י עִם־חֲלָבִ֑י אִכְל֣וּ רֵעִ֔ים שְׁת֥וּ וְשִׁכְר֖וּ דּוֹדִֽים׃ ס", "text": "I have *bāʾtî* to *gannî* my *ʾăḥōtî kallāh*, I have *ʾārîtî* my *mōrî* with my *bəśāmî*, I have *ʾāḵaltî* my *yaʿrî* with my *diḇšî*, I have *šātîtî* my *yênî* with my *ḥălāḇî*; *ʾiḵlû rēʿîm*, *šətû wəšiḵrû dôḏîm*", "grammar": { "*bāʾtî*": "perfect, 1st person singular - I have come/entered", "*gannî*": "noun, masculine singular construct with 1st person possessive suffix - my garden", "*ʾăḥōtî*": "noun, feminine singular with 1st person possessive suffix - my sister", "*kallāh*": "noun, feminine singular - bride", "*ʾārîtî*": "perfect, 1st person singular - I have gathered/plucked", "*mōrî*": "noun, masculine singular with 1st person possessive suffix - my myrrh", "*bəśāmî*": "noun, masculine plural with 1st person possessive suffix - my spices", "*ʾāḵaltî*": "perfect, 1st person singular - I have eaten", "*yaʿrî*": "noun, masculine singular with 1st person possessive suffix - my honeycomb", "*diḇšî*": "noun, masculine singular with 1st person possessive suffix - my honey", "*šātîtî*": "perfect, 1st person singular - I have drunk", "*yênî*": "noun, masculine singular with 1st person possessive suffix - my wine", "*ḥălāḇî*": "noun, masculine singular with 1st person possessive suffix - my milk", "*ʾiḵlû*": "imperative, masculine plural - eat", "*rēʿîm*": "noun, masculine plural - friends/companions", "*šətû*": "imperative, masculine plural - drink", "*wəšiḵrû*": "conjunction + imperative, masculine plural - and be drunk/intoxicated", "*dôḏîm*": "noun, masculine plural - lovers/beloved ones" }, "variants": { "*bāʾtî*": "come/enter/arrive", "*gannî*": "garden/enclosed place", "*ʾărîtî*": "gather/pluck/harvest", "*mōrî*": "myrrh/fragrant resin", "*yaʿrî*": "honeycomb/forest", "*dôḏîm*": "lovers/beloved ones/love" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Jeg er kommet til min hage, min søster, min brud; jeg har plukket min myrra med mitt krydder; jeg har spist min honningkake med min honning; jeg har drukket min vin med min melk. Spis, venner; drikk og bli beruset, kjære venner.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg er kommen, min Søster, o Brud! i min Have, jeg haver afbrudt min Myrrha med min kostelige Urt, jeg haver ædet min Honningkage med min Honning, jeg haver drukket min Viin med min Melk; æder, I Venner! drikker og bliver drukne, I Elskelige!

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Jeg har kommet til min hage, min søster, min brud. Jeg har sanket min myrra med mine krydder; jeg har spist min vokskake med min honning; jeg har drukket min vin med min melk. Spis, mine venner; drikk, ja, drikk rikelig, mine kjære.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg har kommet inn i min hage, min søster, min brud. Jeg har samlet min myrra med mine krydder; jeg har spist min honningkake med min honning; jeg har drukket min vin med min melk. Venner: Spis, venner! Drikk, ja, drikk rikelig, elskede. Elskede:

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Jeg er kommet inn i hagen min, min søster-brud, jeg har plukket min myrra med mitt krydder, jeg har spist min honningkake med honning, jeg har drukket min vin med melk. Spis, venner, drikk, ja, drikk rikelig, kjære!

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Jeg er kommet inn i min hage, min søster, min brud: Jeg har samlet min myrra med min krydder; Jeg har spist min honningkake med min honning; Jeg har drukket min vin med min melk. Spis, venner! Drikk, ja, drikk rikelig, du elskede.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Jeg har kommet inn i hagen min, min søster, min brud; for å ta min myrra med mitt krydder; min voks med min honning; min vin med min melk. Spis, venner; drikk vin, ja, bli overveldet av kjærlighet.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Come in to my garden o my sister, my spouse: I haue gathered my Myrre wt my spyce. I wil eate my hony and my hony cobe, I wil drynke my wyne & my mylk Eate o (ye frendes) drynke and be mery, o ye beloued.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I gathered my myrrhe with my spice: I ate mine hony combe with mine hony, I dranke my wine with my milke: eate, O friends, drinke, and make you mery, O welbeloued.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I haue gathered my Myrre with my spice: I haue eate hony with my hony combe, I haue drunke my wine with my milke: Eate O ye frendes, drinke and be merie O ye beloued.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The Lover to His Beloved: I have entered my garden, O my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk!The Poet to the Couple: Eat, friends, and drink! Drink freely, O lovers!

Referenced Verses

• Song 6:2 : 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
• Isa 61:11 : 11 For as the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
• John 15:14-15 : 14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 From now on I call you not servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
• John 3:29 : 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this my joy is fulfilled.
• Song 4:16 : 16 Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; blow upon my garden, that the spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
• John 14:21-23 : 21 He who has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is who loves me: and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him. 22 Judas, not Iscariot, said to him, Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to the world? 23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
• Acts 11:29 : 29 Then the disciples, each according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brothers dwelling in Judea:
• 2 Cor 9:11-15 : 11 Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness, which through us produces thanksgiving to God. 12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but is also abundant through many thanksgivings to God; 13 While by the evidence of this ministry they glorify God for your professed submission to the gospel of Christ, and for your generous sharing with them, and with all men; 14 And by their prayer for you, who long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift.
• Eph 5:18 : 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
• 1 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord. 9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
• Heb 2:12-14 : 12 Saying, I will declare Your name to my brethren, in the midst of the church I will sing praise to You. 13 And again, I will put my trust in Him. And again, Behold, I and the children whom God has given me. 14 Since then the children partake of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil;
• Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who hears say, Come. And let him who is thirsty come. And whoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
• Isa 23:18 : 18 And her goods and her trade shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
• Isa 51:3 : 3 For the LORD will comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
• Isa 53:11 : 11 He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge, my righteous servant shall justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
• Isa 55:1-2 : 1 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.
• Isa 58:11 : 11 And the LORD shall guide you continually and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
• Isa 62:8-9 : 8 The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no longer give your grain to be food for your enemies; and the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your wine, for which you have labored: 9 But those who have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and those who have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
• Isa 65:13 : 13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed;
• Isa 66:14 : 14 And when you see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
• Zech 9:15-17 : 15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink and make noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar. 16 The LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be like the stones of a crown, lifted up like an ensign upon his land. 17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the young women.
• Matt 25:40 : 40 And the King will answer and say to them, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.
• Luke 12:4 : 4 And I say to you my friends, Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.
• Luke 15:6-7 : 6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. 7 I say to you, that likewise there will be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
• Luke 15:9-9 : 9 And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I lost. 10 Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
• Song 6:11 : 11 I went down to the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine had flourished, and the pomegranates had budded.
• Song 8:1 : 1 Oh, that you were like my brother, who nursed at my mother's breasts! When I find you outside, I would kiss you, and I would not be despised.
• Song 8:13 : 13 You who dwell in the gardens, the companions listen for your voice: cause me to hear it.
• Deut 16:13-17 : 13 You shall observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after you have gathered in your grain and your wine: 14 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates. 15 Seven days you shall keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice. 16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which He shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.
• Deut 26:10-14 : 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me. And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God: 11 And you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you. 12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled; 13 Then you shall say before the LORD your God, I have removed the sacred things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed your commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I taken away any of it for any unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead: but I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that you have commanded me.
• 2 Chr 31:6-9 : 6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah who dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the LORD their God, and laid them in heaps. 7 In the third month, they began to lay the foundation of the heaps and finished them in the seventh month. 8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and his people Israel. 9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. 10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and have left plenty, for the LORD has blessed his people; and what is left is this great store.
• Ps 16:3 : 3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.'
• Ps 147:11 : 11 The LORD takes pleasure in those that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
• Prov 9:5 : 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed.
• Song 4:9-9 : 9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck. 10 How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your ointments than all spices! 11 Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. 12 A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. 13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, 14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
• Isa 5:1 : 1 Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill: