I rose to open for my love.
My hands dripped with myrrh,(A)
my fingers with flowing myrrh
on the handles of the bolt.
I opened to my love,
but my love had turned and gone away.
My heart sank[a] because he had left.[b]
I sought him, but did not find him.(B)
I called him, but he did not answer.
The guards who go about the city found me.(C)
They beat and wounded me;
they took my cloak[c] from me—
the guardians of the walls.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 5:6 Lit My soul went out
  2. 5:6 Or spoken
  3. 5:7 Or veil, or shawl

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