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Song Of Solomon 5:2-8

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2“I was asleep but my heart was awake.

A voice! My beloved was knocking:

‘Open to me, my sister, my darling,

My dove, my perfect one!

For my head is drenched with dew,

My locks with the dew drops of the night.’

3“I have taken off my dress,

How can I put it on again?

I have washed my feet,

How can I dirty them again?

4“My beloved extended his hand through the opening,

And my feelings were stirred for him.

5“I arose to open to my beloved;

And my hands dripped with myrrh,

And my fingers with drops of myrrh,

On the handles of the bolt.

6“I opened to my beloved,

But my beloved had turned away and had gone!

My heart went out to him as he spoke.

I searched for him but I did not find him;

I called him but he did not answer me.

7“The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me,

They struck me and wounded me;

The guards of the walls took my shawl away from me.

8“Swear to me, you daughters of Jerusalem,

If you find my beloved,

As to what you will tell him:

For I am lovesick.”