Song of Songs 5:2-7
Legacy Standard Bible
2 “[a]I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
A voice! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me, (A)my sister, my darling,
(B)My dove, my perfect one!
For my head is full of dew,
My (C)locks with the [b]damp of the night.’
3 I have (D)taken off my long-sleeved garment,
How can I put it on again?
I have (E)washed my feet,
How can I dirty them again?
4 My beloved sent forth his hand through the opening,
And my [c](F)feelings moaned for him.
5 I arose to open to my beloved;
And my hands (G)dripped with myrrh,
And my fingers with [d]liquid myrrh,
On the handles of the lock.
6 I opened to my beloved,
But my beloved had (H)turned away and passed by!
My soul went out to him as he (I)spoke.
I (J)searched for him, but I did not find him;
I (K)called him, but he did not answer me.
7 The (L)watchmen who go about in the city found me,
They struck me and wounded me;
The guardsmen of the walls took away my shawl from me.
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 5:2 BRIDE
- Song of Songs 5:2 Lit drops
- Song of Songs 5:4 Lit bowels
- Song of Songs 5:5 Lit passing
Song of Solomon 5:2-7
American Standard Version
2 I [a]was asleep, but my heart waked:
It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying,
Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my [b]undefiled;
For my head is filled with dew,
My locks with the drops of the night.
3 I have put off my garment; how shall I put it on?
I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door,
And my [c]heart was moved for him.
5 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.
6 I opened to my beloved;
But my beloved had [d]withdrawn himself, and was gone.
My soul [e]had failed me when he spake:
I sought him, but I could not find him;
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7 The watchmen that go about the city found me,
They smote me, they wounded me;
The keepers of the walls took away my [f]mantle from me.
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 5:2 Or, sleep, but my heart waketh
- Song of Solomon 5:2 Hebrew perfect.
- Song of Solomon 5:4 Hebrew bowels.
- Song of Solomon 5:6 Or, turned away
- Song of Solomon 5:6 Hebrew went forth.
- Song of Solomon 5:7 Or, veil
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