THE SHULAMITE: I sleep, but my heart is awake; It is the voice of my beloved! He knocks, saying,“ Open for me, my sister, my love, My dove, my perfect one; For my head is covered with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.”

我身睡卧，我心却醒。这是我良人的声音；他敲门说：“我的妹子，我的佳偶，我的鸽子，我的完全人，求你给我开门；因我的头满了露水，我的头发被夜露滴湿。”

我身躺卧，我心却醒。这是我良人的声音；他敲门：“我的妹子，我的佳偶，我的鸽子，我完美的人儿，请你为我开门；因我的头沾满露水，我的发被夜露滴湿。”

我身躺卧，我心却醒。这是我良人的声音；他敲门：“我的妹子，我的佳偶，我的鸽子，我完美的人儿，请你为我开门；因我的头沾满露水，我的发被夜露滴湿。”

我虽然躺在床上，心却清醒。我听见我的良人在叩门，说：“开门吧！我的妹妹，我的爱人，我完美无瑕的小鸽子啊，我的头上沾满了露水，头发被夜间的露珠弄湿了。”

我身虽然睡卧，我心却醒。这是我的良人的声音，他敲着门说：“我的妹妹，我的佳偶，我的鸽子，我的完全人哪！求你给我开门；因为我的头满了露水，头发给夜露滴湿。”

我身睡臥，我心卻醒。這是我良人的聲音；他敲門說：我的妹子，我的佳偶，我的鴿子，我的完全人，求你給我開門；因我的頭滿了露水，我的頭髮被夜露滴濕。

我身躺臥，我心卻醒。這是我良人的聲音；他敲門：「我的妹子，我的佳偶，我的鴿子，我完美的人兒，請你為我開門；因我的頭沾滿露水，我的髮被夜露滴濕。」

我身躺臥，我心卻醒。這是我良人的聲音；他敲門：「我的妹子，我的佳偶，我的鴿子，我完美的人兒，請你為我開門；因我的頭沾滿露水，我的髮被夜露滴濕。」

我雖然躺在床上，心卻清醒。我聽見我的良人在叩門，說：「開門吧！我的妹妹，我的愛人，我完美無瑕的小鴿子啊，我的頭上沾滿了露水，頭髮被夜間的露珠弄濕了。」

我身雖然睡臥，我心卻醒。這是我的良人的聲音，他敲著門說：“我的妹妹，我的佳偶，我的鴿子，我的完全人哪！求你給我開門；因為我的頭滿了露水，頭髮給夜露滴濕。”

我躺着睡，我的心卻醒着。呢，我愛人的聲音呢！他敲着門說：『我的妹妹、我的愛侶啊，給我開門吧！我的鴿子，我的十全美人哪！我的頭都滿了露水了，我的頭髮都滿了夜間的露水珠了。』

書拉密女曰我身寢而心寤、聞我所愛者之聲、叩門曰、我姊妹、我嘉偶、我鴿、我完人歟、為我啟門、我首蒙露、我髮為夜露所霑、

新婦曰、我身寢而心寤、夢中聽夫子之聲、叩門呼曰、我之愛妃、美麗若鴿、德無不備、夜深露下、我髮沾濡、爾其啟門、容我入室。

我身寢而心寤、我聞我良人之聲、叩門呼曰、我之妹、我之佳耦、美麗如鴿、才德全備、求爾為我啟門、因我首霑濡以露、髮以夜露而滴濕、

I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My beloved is knocking:“ Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

“ I slept, but my heart was awake. Listen! The one who loves me is knocking. He says,‘ My sister, I love you. Open up so I can come in. You are my dove. You are perfect in every way. My head is soaked with dew. The night air has made my hair wet.’

I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking.“ Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”

I slept, but my heart was awake, when I heard my lover knocking and calling:“ Open to me, my treasure, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. A sound! My love was knocking! Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with droplets of the night.

“ I was asleep but my heart was awake. A voice! My beloved was knocking:‘ Open to me, my sister, my darling, My dove, my perfect one! For my head is drenched with dew, My locks with the dew drops of the night.’

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.

I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My love is knocking! Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with droplets of the night.

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.

I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door!“ 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.”

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.”

“ O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the cliff, Let me see your face, Let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, And your face is lovely.”

My dove, my perfect one, Is the only one, The only one of her mother, The favorite of the one who bore her. The daughters saw her And called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, And they praised her.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

Now, as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep with my face to the ground; but he touched me, and stood me upright.

THE SHULAMITE: By night on my bed I sought the one I love; I sought him, but I did not find him.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord!

I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.

My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes observe my ways.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:“ He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses.”

Just as many were astonished at you, So His visage was marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of men;

THE SHULAMITE: The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills.

Now the angel who talked with me came back and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.

Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love All the wealth of his house, It would be utterly despised.

And the roof of your mouth like the best wine. THE SHULAMITE: The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved, Moving gently the lips of sleepers.

You have ravished my heart, My sister, my spouse; You have ravished my heart With one look of your eyes, With one link of your necklace.

My beloved spoke, and said to me:“ Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away.

Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle.Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah

I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.

His head is like the finest gold; His locks are wavy, And black as a raven.

There I was! In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

You are all fair, my love, And there is no spot in you.

These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

But Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep; and when they were fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men who stood with Him.

for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’“ Then the righteous will answer Him, saying,‘ Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’And the King will answer and say to them,‘ Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’“ Then He will also say to those on the left hand,‘ Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink;I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’“ Then they also will answer Him, saying,‘ Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’Then He will answer them, saying,‘ Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’

but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Therefore He says:“ Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”

For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter,“ What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.

And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.