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My beloved is knocking:</p><p class="line1">“Open to me, my sister, my darling,</p><p class="line2">my dove, my flawless one.</p><p class="line1">My head is drenched with dew,</p><p class="line2">my hair with the dampness of the night.”</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have taken off my robe—</p><p class="line2">must I put it on again?</p><p class="line1">I have washed my feet—</p><p class="line2">must I soil them again?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening;</p><p class="line2">my heart began to pound for him.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I arose to open for my beloved,</p><p class="line2">and my hands dripped with myrrh,</p><p class="line1">my fingers with flowing myrrh,</p><p class="line2">on the handles of the bolt.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I opened for my beloved,</p><p class="line2">but my beloved had left; he was gone.</p><p class="line2">My heart sank at his departure. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or heart had gone out to him when he spoke">a</a></sup></span> </p><p class="line1">I looked for him but did not find him.</p><p class="line2">I called him but he did not answer.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The watchmen found me</p><p class="line2">as they made their rounds in the city.</p><p class="line1">They beat me, they bruised me;</p><p class="line2">they took away my cloak,</p><p class="line2">those watchmen of the walls!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you—</p><p class="line2">if you find my beloved,</p><p class="line1">what will you tell him?</p><p class="line2">Tell him I am faint with love.</p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">Friends</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>How is your beloved better than others,</p><p class="line2">most beautiful of women?</p><p class="line1">How is your beloved better than others,</p><p class="line2">that you so charge us?</p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">She</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My beloved is radiant and ruddy,</p><p class="line2">outstanding among ten thousand.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>His head is purest gold;</p><p class="line2">his hair is wavy</p><p class="line2">and black as a raven.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His eyes are like doves</p><p class="line2">by the water streams,</p><p class="line1">washed in milk,</p><p class="line2">mounted like jewels.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His cheeks are like beds of spice</p><p class="line2">yielding perfume.</p><p class="line1">His lips are like lilies</p><p class="line2">dripping with myrrh.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>His arms are rods of gold</p><p class="line2">set with topaz.</p><p class="line1">His body is like polished ivory</p><p class="line2">decorated with lapis lazuli.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>His legs are pillars of marble</p><p class="line2">set on bases of pure gold.</p><p class="line1">His appearance is like Lebanon,</p><p class="line2">choice as its cedars.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>His mouth is sweetness itself;</p><p class="line2">he is altogether lovely.</p><p class="line1">This is my beloved, this is my friend,</p><p class="line2">daughters of Jerusalem.</p></div></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>heart had gone out to him when he spoke</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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