Song of Songs 5
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Song of Songs 5:2-8

2I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. 3I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.1 5I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.2 6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 7The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.3

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Notes

  1. 1. Song of Songs 5:4 for him: or, (as some read) in me. ↩
  2. 2. Song of Songs 5:5 sweet…: Heb. passing, or, running about. ↩
  3. 3. Song of Songs 5:8 that ye: Heb. what, etc. ↩

Commentaries on Song of Songs 5

Revised Literal Translation — © 2018 Michael W. Jones, Sr. — GPL