2I sleep, and my heart watcheth; the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.
3I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
4My beloved put his hand through the key hole, and my bowels were moved at his touch.
5I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.
6I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved: but he had turned aside, and was gone. My soul melted when he spoke: I sought him, and found him not: I called, and he did not answer me.
7The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.
9What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, O thou most beautiful among women? what manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, that thou hast so adjured us?
10My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.