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My beloved thrust his hand into the opening,
    and my inmost yearned for him.
I myself arose to open to my beloved;
    my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with liquid myrrh
    upon the handles of the bolt.
I opened myself to my beloved,
    but my beloved had turned and gone;[a]
my heart sank[b] when he turned away.[c]
I sought him, but I did not find him;
    I called him, but he did not answer me.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 5:6 Or “my beloved had left; he was gone”
  2. Song of Solomon 5:6 Or “my soul left”
  3. Song of Solomon 5:6 Or “when he was speaking.” Translations equivocate on how to translate this verb, since there are two terms in Hebrew spelled identically: “to speak” and “to turn aside” (HALOT 1:210). The context suggests the latter