Song of Solomon 5:2
1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
- KJV
- I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
- WEB
- 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.”
- ASV
- I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
- DARBY
- I slept, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved! he knocketh: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, mine undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
- BLB
- I [was] asleep, and my heart was aroused. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. For my head is full of dew, my locks of the drops of the night.”
- ÅB
- Jeg sover, men mitt hjerte våker; da lyder min elskedes røst -- han banker på: Lukk opp for meg, min søster, min venninne, min due, du rene! For mitt hode er fullt av dugg, mine lokker av nattens dråper.
- OTB
- Jeg sov, men mitt hjerte var våkent. Jeg hørte en stemme! Min elskede var ved døren: "Åpne for meg, min søster, min kjære, Min due, min feilfrie! For mitt hode er vått av dugg, Mitt hår av nattens fuktighet."
- B1930
- Jeg sover, men mitt hjerte våker; da lyder min elskedes røst - han banker på: Lukk op for mig, min søster, min venninne, min due, du rene! For mitt hode er fullt av dugg, mine lokker av nattens dråper.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
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O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
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My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
Read in contextZechariah 4:1
And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
Read in contextPsalms 119:1
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 4:7
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
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That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 3:1
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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