Scriptures

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Song of Solomon 5
² "I was asleep but my heart was awake. A voice! My beloved was knocking: ’Open to me, my sister, my darling, My dove, my perfect one! For my head is drenched with dew, My locks with the damp of the night.’
³ "I have taken off my dress, How can I put it on again? I have washed my feet, How can I dirty them again?
⁴ "My beloved extended his hand through the opening, And my feelings were aroused for him.
⁵ "I arose to open to my beloved; And my hands dripped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the bolt.
⁶ "I opened to my beloved, But my beloved had turned away and had gone! My heart went out to him as he spoke. I searched for him but I did not find him; I called him but he did not answer me.
⁷ "The watchmen 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 adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, As to what you will tell him: For I am lovesick."
⁹ "What kind of beloved is your beloved, O most beautiful among women? What kind of beloved is your beloved, That thus you adjure us?"
¹⁰ "My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, Outstanding among ten thousand.
¹¹ "His head is like gold, pure gold; His locks are like clusters of dates And black as a raven.
¹² "His eyes are like doves Beside streams of water, Bathed in milk, And reposed in their setting.