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I rose up to open to my beloved;
And my hands dropped with myrrh,
And my fingers with liquid myrrh,
Upon the handles of the bolt.
I opened to my beloved;
But my beloved had [a]withdrawn himself, and was gone.
My soul [b]had failed me when he spake:
I sought him, but I could not find him;
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
The watchmen that go about the city found me,
They smote me, they wounded me;
The keepers of the walls took away my [c]mantle from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 5:6 Or, turned away
  2. Song of Solomon 5:6 Hebrew went forth.
  3. Song of Solomon 5:7 Or, veil