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My beloved reached out his hand for the latch.[a]
    My feelings for him were aroused.
I got up to open the door,[b]
    and my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with liquid myrrh,
    on the handle of the lock.
I opened the door[c] for my beloved,
    but my beloved had turned away; he was gone!
My very life went out when he departed.[d]
    I searched for him,
        but couldn’t find him.
    I called out to him,
        but he didn’t answer.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 5:4 Or keyhole
  2. Song of Solomon 5:5 The Heb. lacks the door
  3. Song of Solomon 5:6 The Heb. lacks the door
  4. Song of Solomon 5:6 Or when he spoke