3. I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
4. My beloved put his hand through the key hole, and my bowels were moved at his touch.
5. I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.
6. I 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.
7. The 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.
8. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.
9. What 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?
10. My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.
11. His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven.
12. His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.