Parallel Verses
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}."
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.
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
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.
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 have come to my garden, my sister bride, 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 and become drunk [with] love}! 2 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}." 3 I have taken off my tunic, {must I put it on}? I have bathed my feet, {must I soil them}?
Phrases
Cross References
Song of Songs 6:9
My dove, {she is the one}; my perfect, {she is the only one}; she [is] {the favorite of} her mother who bore her. Maidens see her and consider her fortunate; queens and concubines praise her:
Song of Songs 2:14
My dove, in the clefts of the rock, {in the secluded place} {in the mountain}, Let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice [is] sweet and your face [is] lovely.
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, indeed I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me.
Genesis 29:20
And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her.
Genesis 31:40-41
[There] I was, during the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Psalm 24:7-10
Lift up your heads, O gates, and rise up, O ancient doorways, that the king of glory may enter.
Psalm 81:10
I [am] Yahweh your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
Psalm 119:1
Blessed [are those whose] way is blameless, who walk in the law of Yahweh.
Proverbs 23:26
My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.
Song of Songs 2:8
The voice of my beloved! Look! Here {he} comes leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills!
Song of Songs 2:10
My beloved answered and said to me, "{Arise}, my beloved! {Come, my beauty}!
Song of Songs 3:1
On my bed in the night, I sought him whom my {heart} loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
Song of Songs 4:7
You [are] completely beautiful, my beloved! {You are flawless}!
Song of Songs 4:9
You have stolen (my) heart, my sister bride! You have stolen [my] heart with one [glance] from your eyes, with one ornament from your necklaces.
Song of Songs 5:11
His head [is] gold, refined gold; his locks [are] wavy, black as a raven.
Song of Songs 7:9
Your palate [is] like the best wine that goes down for my beloved, smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth.
Song of Songs 8:7
Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house {for love}, he would be utterly scorned.
Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to those who struck [me], and my cheeks to those who pulled out my {beard}; I did not hide my face from insults and spittle.
Isaiah 52:14
Just as many were appalled at you-- such [was] his appearance beyond human disfigurement, and his form beyond the sons of mankind--
Isaiah 53:3-5
[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.
Daniel 8:18
And {when he spoke} with me I fell into a trance with my face to the ground, and he touched me and made me stand on by feet.
Zechariah 4:1
And the angel [who was] talking with me returned, and he wakened me as one who is wakened from his sleep.
Matthew 8:17
in order that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, "He himself took away our sicknesses, and carried away our diseases."
Matthew 25:4-5
But the wise ones took olive oil in flasks with their lamps.
Matthew 25:35-45
For I was hungry and you gave me [something] to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me [something] to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me as a guest,
Matthew 26:40-41
And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "So, were you not able to stay awake with me one hour?
Mark 1:35
And getting up early in the morning [while it was] very dark, he departed and went to a deserted place, and there he was praying.
Luke 6:12
Now it happened that in these days he went away to the mountain to pray, and was spending the whole night in prayer to God.
Luke 9:32
Now Peter and those with him were {very sleepy}, but [when they] became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men who were standing with him.
Luke 22:44
And being in anguish, he began praying more fervently and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground.]]
John 10:4
Whenever he sends out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For the love of Christ controls us, [because we] have concluded this: that one died for all; as a result all died.
Galatians 2:20
and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that [life] I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Ephesians 5:14
for everything made visible is light. Therefore it says, Wake up, sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
Revelation 3:4
But you have a few {people} in Sardis who have not defiled their clothing, and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.
Revelation 14:4
These are those who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These [are] the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought from humanity [as] first fruits to God and to the Lamb,