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The Beloved's Hesitation and Regret
Song of Solomon 5:2-8
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[She] I am asleep, but my heart is awake. Listen! I hear my darling knocking! [He] Open for me, my sister, my love, my dove, my flawless one! For my head is wet with dew, my hair with the moisture of the night.
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[She] I've removed my coat; must I put it back on? I've washed my feet; must I dirty them again?
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The man I love put his hand through the hole by the door-latch, and my heart began pounding at the thought of him.
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I got up to open for the man I love. My hands were dripping with myrrh pure myrrh ran off my fingers onto the handle of the bolt.
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I opened for my darling, but my darling had turned and gone. My heart had failed me when he spoke I sought him, but I couldn't find him; I called him, but he didn't answer.
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The watchmen roaming the city found me; they beat me, they wounded me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls!
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I charge you, daughters of Yerushalayim, that if you find the man I love, what are you to tell him? That I am sick with love.
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