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 2drenched with dew,
My clocks with the 3damp of the night.’
3 “I have ataken off my dress,
How can I put it on again?
I have bwashed my feet,
How can I dirty them again?
4 “My beloved extended his hand through the opening,
And my 1afeelings were aroused 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 bolt.
But my beloved had aturned away and had gone!
My 1heart 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 make the rounds in the city found me,
They struck me and wounded me;
The guardsmen of the walls took away my shawl from me.
8 “I aadjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
If you find my beloved,
As to what you will tell him:
For bI am lovesick.”