Song 5:2-8 | ESV | STEP | I slept , but my heart was awake . A sound ! My beloved is knocking . Open to me, my sister , my love , my dove , my perfect one , for my head is wet with dew , my locks with the drops of the night .

Song of Solomon 5:2-8

The Bride Searches for Her Beloved

She

2 I slept, but my heart was awake.
A sound! My beloved is ^aknocking.
“Open to me, my ^bsister, my ^clove,
my ^ddove, my ^eperfect one,
for my head is wet with dew,
my ^flocks with the drops of the night.”
3 ^gI had put off my garment;
how could I put it on?
I had ^hbathed my feet;
how could I soil them?
4 My beloved put his hand to the latch,
and my heart was thrilled within me.
5 I arose to open to my beloved,
and my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with ⁱliquid myrrh,
on the handles of the bolt.
6 I opened to my beloved,
but my beloved had turned and gone.
My soul failed me when he ^jspoke.
^kI sought him, but found him not;
^lI called him, but he gave no answer.
7 ^mThe watchmen found me
as they went about in the city;
they beat me, they bruised me,
they took away my veil,
those watchmen of the walls.
8 I ⁿadjure you, O ^odaughters of Jerusalem,
if you find my beloved,
that you tell him
^pI am sick with love.