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The Beloved's Hesitation and Regret
Song of Solomon 5:2-8
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I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
3
I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
4
My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.
5
I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
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I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.
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The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
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I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends
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