Tell me, you whom I love,
    where you graze your flock
    and where you rest your sheep(A) at midday.
Why should I be like a veiled(B) woman
    beside the flocks of your friends?

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I opened for my beloved,(A)
    but my beloved had left; he was gone.(B)
    My heart sank at his departure.[a]
I looked(C) for him but did not find him.
    I called him but he did not answer.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 5:6 Or heart had gone out to him when he spoke

My soul yearns for you in the night;(A)
    in the morning my spirit longs(B) for you.
When your judgments(C) come upon the earth,
    the people of the world learn righteousness.(D)

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