Song of Songs 5:2-8

2I slept but my mind was awake. Listen! My lover is knocking on my door! He said, ‘Open the door for me, my dear friend. You are my sister, the perfect one that I love. To me you are like a beautiful dove. Dew from the night air covers my head. My hair is very wet.’

3I said, ‘I have taken off my day clothes. I do not want to dress myself again. I have washed my feet. I do not want them to get dirty again.’

4My lover pushed his hand through the hole in the door. My heart began to beat faster because he was near.

5I got up to open the door for my lover. My hands were wet with myrrh. Myrrh dropped from my fingers onto the handle of the door.

6I opened the door for my lover. But he had already turned away. He had gone! I was very upset that he had gone away. I looked for him but I did not find him. I called to him but he did not answer me.

7The city guards found me as they walked in the streets of the city. They beat me and they hurt my body. Those guards on the city walls took away my robe.

8Young women of Jerusalem, please find my lover! Promise me to tell him this, if you find him. Tell him that my love for him has made me weak!