I opened to my well-beloved: but my well-beloved was gone and past: mine heart was gone when he did speak: I sought him, but I could not find him: I called him, but he answered me not.

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The [a]watchmen that were about the city, found me: they smote me, and wounded me: the watchmen of the walls took away my veil from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 5:7 These are the false teachers, which wound the conscience with their traditions.

I will rise therefore now, and go about in the city, by the streets, and by the open places, and will [a]seek him that my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:2 Showing that although we be not heard at the first, yet we must still continue in prayer, till we feel comfort.

The [a]watchmen that went about the city, found me: to whom I said, Have you seen him whom my soul loveth?

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:3 Which declareth that we must seek unto all of whom we hope to have any succor.

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