Song of Solomon 5:4

2 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?

My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
KJV
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
WEB
My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.
ASV
My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door], And my heart was moved for him.
DARBY
My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door]; And my bowels yearned for him.
BLB
My beloved stretched out his hand to the latch, and my bowels murmered for him.
ÅB
Min elskede rakte sin hånd inn gjennom luken; da ble mitt hjerte rørt for hans skyld.
OTB
Min elskede rakte hånden inn gjennom åpningen, Og mitt hjerte ble beveget for ham.
B1930
Min elskede rakte sin hånd inn gjennem luken; da blev mitt hjerte rørt for hans skyld.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Philippians 2:13

    For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

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  • Song of Solomon 1:4

    Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

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  • Acts 16:14

    And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.

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  • 2 Corinthians 8:16

    But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.

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  • 1 Kings 3:26

    Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

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  • Psalms 110:3

    Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

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  • Genesis 43:30

    And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

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  • 2 Corinthians 8:1–2

    Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

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