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Song of Solomon 5:6

World English Bible

I opened to my beloved;
but my beloved left, and had gone away.
My heart went out when he spoke.
I looked for him, but I didn’t find him.
I called him, but he didn’t answer.

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Song of Solomon 5:6 in other translations

I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Song of Solomon 5:6 · American Standard Version

Song of Solomon 5:6 in context

  1. 4My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening.
    My heart pounded for him.
  2. 5I rose up to open for my beloved.
    My hands dripped with myrrh,
    my fingers with liquid myrrh,
    on the handles of the lock.
  3. 6I opened to my beloved;
    but my beloved left, and had gone away.
    My heart went out when he spoke.
    I looked for him, but I didn’t find him.
    I called him, but he didn’t answer.
  4. 7The watchmen who go about the city found me.
    They beat me.
    They bruised me.
    The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
  5. 8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
    If you find my beloved,
    that you tell him that I am faint with love.