Song of Solomon 5:2–8

²“¹I was asleep, but my heart was awake.

A voice! My beloved was knocking:

‘Open to me, ^amy sister, my darling,

^bMy dove, my perfect one!

For my head is full of dew,

My ^clocks with the ²damp of the night.’

³“I have ^ataken off my long-sleeved garment,

How can I put it on again?

I have ^bwashed my feet,

How can I dirty them again?

⁴“My beloved sent forth his hand through the opening,

And my ^1afeelings moaned for him.

⁵“I arose to open to my beloved;

And my hands ^adripped with myrrh,

And my fingers with ¹liquid myrrh,

On the handles of the lock.

⁶“I opened to my beloved,

But my beloved had ^aturned away and passed by!

My soul went out to him as he ^bspoke.

I ^csearched for him, but I did not find him;

I ^dcalled him, but he did not answer me.

⁷“The ^awatchmen 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.

⁸“I ^acall you to solemnly swear, O daughters of Jerusalem,

If you find my beloved,

What will you tell him?

Tell him that ^bI am sick with love.”