Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
I slept and my heart waked: the voice of my beloved knocks at the door; Open to me, my sister, my friend, my dove, my perfect one: my head was filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night
New American Standard Bible
A voice! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me,
For my head is
My
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
A sound! My love is knocking!
my dove, my perfect one.
For my head is drenched with dew,
my hair with droplets of the night.
International Standard Version
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. There's a sound! My beloved is knocking. "Open up for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
(The Shulammite Bride)
“I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
A voice [in my dream]! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me, my sister, my darling,
My dove, my perfect one!
For my head is drenched with the [heavy night] dew;
My hair [is covered] with the dampness of the night.’
Bible in Basic English
I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.
Darby Translation
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.
King James 2000
I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I [was] asleep but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved knocking! "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}."
Modern King James verseion
I sleep, but my heart is awake. It is the sound of my Beloved that knocks, 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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As I was asleep, and my heart waking, I heard the voice of my beloved, when he knocked. Open to me, said he, O my sister, my love, my darling, my dove: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of my hair are full of the night drops.
NET Bible
The Beloved about Her Lover: I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door! The Lover to His Beloved: "Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."
New Heart English Bible
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."
The Emphasized Bible
SHEI, was sleeping, but, my heart, was awake, - The voice of my beloved - knocking! Open to me, my sister, my fair one, my dove, my perfect one, for, my head, is filled with dew, my locks, with the moisture of the night.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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."
Youngs Literal Translation
I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! 'Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled with dew, My locks with drops of the night.'
Interlinear
Leb
Pathach
Ro'sh
References
Hastings
Word Count of 19 Translations in Song of Solomon 5:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Maiden's Dream: Seeking And Not Finding
1 I Came to my garden, my sister, O spouse: I gathered my myrrh with my spices; I ate my droppings with my honey; I drank my wine with my milk: Eat, O friends; drink ye, and drink to the full, O beloved ones. 2 I slept and my heart waked: the voice of my beloved knocks at the door; Open to me, my sister, my friend, my dove, my perfect one: my head was filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night 3 I put off my tunic, and how shall I put it on? I washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
Phrases
Cross References
Song of Songs 6:9
She is one, my dove, my perfect one; she is one to her mother, she is the chosen to her bearing her. The daughters saw her and pronounced her happy; the queens and the concubines, and they will praise her.
Song of Songs 2:14
My dove in the refuges of the rock, in the biding of the steep mountain: cause me to see thy form, cause me to hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet and thy form becoming.
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand before the door, and knock: and if any hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Genesis 29:20
And Jacob will serve for Rachel seven years, and they will be in his eyes as a few days in his loving her.
Genesis 31:40-41
I was in the day, the drought consumed me, and cold in the night, and sleep will flee away from mine eyes.
Psalm 24:7-10
Lift up your heads, ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye openings of eternity, and the King of glory shall come in.
Psalm 81:10
I am Jehovah thy God bringing thee up from the land of Egypt: make broad thy mouth and I will fill it
Psalm 119:1
Happy the blameless of way, they going in the law of Jehovah.
Proverbs 23:26
My son, thou shalt give thy heart to me, and thine eyes shall delight in my way.
Song of Songs 2:8
The voice of my beloved I behold him coming leaping upon the mountains, springing upon the hills
Song of Songs 2:10
My beloved answered and said to me, Rise up for thyself, my friend, my beautiful one, and go for thyself.
Song of Songs 3:1
Upon my bed in the night I sought him whom my soul loved: I sought him, and I found him not
Song of Songs 4:7
All of thee beautiful, my friend, and no blemish in thee.
Song of Songs 4:9
Thou didst rob me of the heart, my sister, O bride; thou didst rob me of the heart with one of thine eyes, with one necklace of thy neck.
Song of Songs 5:11
His head purified gold, his locks waving branches, black as a raven.
Song of Songs 7:9
And thy palate as good wine going to my beloved for uprightness, causing the lips of the sleeping to flow softly.
Song of Songs 8:7
Many waters shall not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not overwhelm it: if a man shall give all the riches of his house for love, despising, they shall be despised for him.
Isaiah 50:6
My back I gave to those smiting, and my cheeks to those tearing out the hair: and my face I hid not from shame and spittle.
Isaiah 52:14
As many were astonished at thee, his appearance being so spoiled from man, and his form from the sons of men.
Isaiah 53:3-5
He was despised and forsaken of men; a man of griefs and knowing affliction: and as hiding the faces from him; he was despised and we regarded him not
Daniel 8:18
And in his speaking with me I lay in a deep sleep upon my face upon the earth: and he will touch upon me and will cause me to stand upon my standing.
Zechariah 4:1
And the messenger speaking with me will turn back and rouse me up as a man that will be roused from his sleep.
Matthew 8:17
So that that spoken by Esaias the prophet was completed, saying. He took our weakness, and lifted up diseases.
Matthew 25:4-5
And the discerning took oil in their vessels with their lanterns.
Matthew 25:35-45
For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye brought me in:
Matthew 26:40-41
And he comes to his disciples, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, So were ye not able to watch with me one hour?
Mark 1:35
And early, having risen far in the night, he went out, and departed into a deserted place, and there prayed.
Luke 6:12
And it was in those days, he went out to the mount to pray, and he was passing the whole night in prayer to God.
Luke 9:32
And Peter and they with him were heavy with sleep: and having waked, they saw his glory, and two men standing with him.
Luke 22:44
And being in a violent struggle, he prayed more intently: and his sweat was as clots of blood coming down upon the earth.
John 10:4
And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee.
Revelation 3:4
Thou hast a few names also in Sardis which stained not their garments; and they shall walk about with me in white things: for they are worthy.
Revelation 14:4
There are they who were not contaminated by women; for they are virgins. These are they following the Lamb wherever he should lead. These were purchased from men, first fruits to God and the Lamb.