Song of Songs 5:2-7 - Maiden's Dream: Seeking And Not Finding

² (The Shulamite) I sleep, but my heart is awake. It is the voice of my beloved that knocks, 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 removed my coat. How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet. How shall I defile them? ⁴ My beloved extended his hand through the latch opening of the door. My heart yearned for him. ⁵ I rose up to open to my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh. My fingers were sweet from sweet smelling myrrh and they grasped the lock handles. ⁶ I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My heart jumped when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him. I called him, but he did not answer. ⁷ The watchmen that went about the city found me, they struck me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took my veil from me.