Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! 'Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled with dew, My locks with drops of the night.'
New American Standard Bible
A voice! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me,
For my head is
My
King James Version
I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, 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.
Holman Bible
A sound! My love is knocking!
my dove, my perfect one.
For my head is drenched with dew,
my hair with droplets of the night.
International Standard Version
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. There's a sound! My beloved is knocking. "Open up for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."
American Standard Version
I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh,'saying , Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
Amplified
(The Shulammite Bride)
“I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
A voice [in my dream]! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me, my sister, my darling,
My dove, my perfect one!
For my head is drenched with the [heavy night] dew;
My hair [is covered] with the dampness of the night.’
Bible in Basic English
I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.
Darby Translation
I slept, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved! he knocketh: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, mine undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
Julia Smith Translation
I slept and my heart waked: the voice of my beloved knocks at the door; Open to me, my sister, my friend, my dove, my perfect one: my head was filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night
King James 2000
I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I [was] asleep but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved knocking! "Open to me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my perfect one! For my head is full of dew, {my hair drenched from the moist night air}."
Modern King James verseion
I sleep, but my heart is awake. It is the sound of my Beloved that knocks, saying, Open to Me, My sister, My love, My dove, My undefiled; for My head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As I was asleep, and my heart waking, I heard the voice of my beloved, when he knocked. Open to me, said he, O my sister, my love, my darling, my dove: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of my hair are full of the night drops.
NET Bible
The Beloved about Her Lover: I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door! The Lover to His Beloved: "Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."
New Heart English Bible
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."
The Emphasized Bible
SHEI, was sleeping, but, my heart, was awake, - The voice of my beloved - knocking! Open to me, my sister, my fair one, my dove, my perfect one, for, my head, is filled with dew, my locks, with the moisture of the night.
Webster
I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, 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.
World English Bible
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."
Interlinear
Leb
Pathach
Ro'sh
References
Hastings
Word Count of 19 Translations in Song of Solomon 5:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Maiden's Dream: Seeking And Not Finding
1 I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones! 2 I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! 'Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled with dew, My locks with drops of the night.' 3 I have put off my coat, how do I put it on? I have washed my feet, how do I defile them?
Phrases
Cross References
Song of Songs 6:9
One is my dove, my perfect one, One she is of her mother, The choice one she is of her that bare her, Daughters saw, and pronounce her happy, Queens and concubines, and they praise her.
Song of Songs 2:14
My dove, in clefts of the rock, In a secret place of the ascent, Cause me to see thine appearance, Cause me to hear thy voice, For thy voice is sweet, and thy appearance comely.
Revelation 3:20
lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Genesis 29:20
and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.
Genesis 31:40-41
I have been thus: in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.
Psalm 24:7-10
Lift up, O gates, your heads, And be lifted up, O doors age-during, And come in doth the king of glory!
Psalm 81:10
I am Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.
Psalm 119:1
Aleph. O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah,
Proverbs 23:26
Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.
Song of Songs 2:8
The voice of my beloved! lo, this -- he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.
Song of Songs 2:10
My beloved hath answered and said to me, 'Rise up, my friend, my fair one, and come away,
Song of Songs 3:1
On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!
Song of Songs 4:7
Thou art all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,
Song of Songs 4:9
Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.
Song of Songs 5:11
His head is pure gold -- fine gold, His locks flowing, dark as a raven,
Song of Songs 7:9
And thy palate as the good wine -- 'Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!
Song of Songs 8:7
Many waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it away. If one give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down -- they tread upon it.
Isaiah 50:6
My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting.
Isaiah 52:14
As astonished at thee have been many, (So marred by man his appearance, And his form by sons of men.)
Isaiah 53:3-5
He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.
Daniel 8:18
And in his speaking with me, I have been in a trance on my face, on the earth; and he cometh against me, and causeth me to stand on my station,
Zechariah 4:1
And the messenger who is speaking with me doth turn back, and stir me up as one who is stirred up out of his sleep,
Matthew 8:17
that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, 'Himself took our infirmities, and the sicknesses he did bear.'
Matthew 25:4-5
and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps.
Matthew 25:35-45
for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me;
Matthew 26:40-41
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, 'So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me!
Mark 1:35
And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;
Luke 6:12
And it came to pass in those days, he went forth to the mountain to pray, and was passing the night in the prayer of God,
Luke 9:32
but Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep, and having waked, they saw his glory, and the two men standing with him.
Luke 22:44
and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.
John 10:4
and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,
Galatians 2:20
with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
Ephesians 5:14
wherefore he saith, 'Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'
Revelation 3:4
Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.
Revelation 14:4
these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb --