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Song of Solomon 5:5

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I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

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  1. Song of Solomon 5:3

    I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

  2. Song of Solomon 5:4

    My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

  3. Song of Solomon 5:6

    I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

  4. Song of Solomon 5:7

    The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.