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knocketh:</div><div class="po2">‘Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled;</div><div class="po2">For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have put off my coat;</div><div class="po2">How shall I put it on?</div><div class="po2">I have washed my feet;</div><div class="po2">How shall I defile them?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door,</div><div class="po2">And my heart was moved for him.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I rose up to open to my beloved;</div><div class="po2">And my hands dropped with myrrh,</div><div class="po2">And my fingers with flowing myrrh,</div><div class="po2">Upon the handles of the bar.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I opened to my beloved;</div><div class="po2">But my beloved had turned away, and was gone.</div><div class="po2">My soul failed me when he spoke.</div><div class="po2">I sought him, but I could not find him;</div><div class="po2">I called him, but he gave me no answer.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The watchmen that go about the city found me,</div><div class="po2">They smote me, they wounded me;</div><div class="po2">The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>‘I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,</div><div class="po2">If ye find my beloved, what will ye tell him?</div><div class="po2">That I am love-sick.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>‘What is thy beloved more than another beloved,</div><div class="po2">O thou fairest among women?</div><div class="po2">What is thy beloved more than another beloved,</div><div class="po2">That thou dost so adjure us?’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>‘My beloved is white and ruddy,</div><div class="po2">Pre-eminent above ten thousand.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>His head is as the most fine gold,</div><div class="po2">His locks are curled,</div><div class="po2">And black as a raven.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His eyes are like doves</div><div class="po2">Beside the water-brooks;</div><div class="po2">Washed with milk,</div><div class="po2">And fitly set.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His cheeks are as a bed of spices,</div><div class="po2">As banks of sweet herbs;</div><div class="po2">His lips are as lilies,</div><div class="po2">Dropping with flowing myrrh.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>His hands are as rods of gold</div><div class="po2">Set with beryl;</div><div class="po2">His body is as polished ivory</div><div class="po2">Overlaid with sapphires.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>His legs are as pillars of marble,</div><div class="po2">Set upon sockets of fine gold;</div><div class="po2">His aspect is like Lebanon,</div><div class="po2">Excellent as the cedars.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>His mouth is most sweet;</div><div class="po2">Yea, he is altogether lovely.</div><div class="po2">This is my beloved, and this is my friend,</div><div class="po2">O daughters of Jerusalem.’</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW 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