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Maiden’s Dream: Seeking and Not Finding

2 I was asleep but[fn] my heart was awake.
- A sound! My beloved knocking![fn]
“Open to me, my sister, my beloved,
- my dove, my perfect one!
For my head is full of dew,
- my hair drenched from the moist night air .”[fn]
3 I have taken off my tunic, must I put it on ?[fn]
- I have bathed my feet, must I soil them ?[fn]
4 My beloved thrust his hand into the opening,
- and my inmost yearned for him.
5 I myself arose to open to my beloved;
- my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with liquid myrrh
- upon the handles of the bolt.
6 I opened myself to my beloved,
- but my beloved had turned and gone;[fn]
my heart sank[fn] when he turned away.[fn]
I sought him, but I did not find him;
- I called him, but he did not answer me.
7 The sentinels making rounds in the city found me;
- they beat me, they wounded me;
they took my cloak[fn] away from me—
- those sentinels on the walls ![fn]

5:? Or “and”

5:? Or “The sound of my beloved knocking!”

5:? Literally “my locks with drops of night”

5:? Literally “How will I put it on?”

5:? Literally “How will I soil them?”

5:? Or “my beloved had left; he was gone”

5:? Or “my soul left”

5:? Or “when he was speaking.” Translations equivocate on how to translate this verb, since there are two terms in Hebrew spelled identically: “to speak” and “to turn aside” (HALOT 1:210). The context suggests the latter

5:? Or “mantle”

5:? Literally “the sentinels of the walls”

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