Song of Songs 5:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone.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

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    I opened to my beloved, but he had withdrawn and was gone. My soul failed when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he did not answer.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    I opened{H6605} to my beloved;{H1730} But my beloved{H1730} had withdrawn{H2559} himself, [and] was gone.{H5674} My soul{H5315} had failed{H3318} me when he spake:{H1696} I sought{H1245} him, but I could not find{H4672} him; I called{H7121} him, but he gave me no answer.{H6030}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    I opened{H6605}{(H8804)} to my beloved{H1730}; but my beloved{H1730} had withdrawn{H2559}{(H8804)} himself, and was gone{H5674}{(H8804)}: my soul{H5315} failed{H3318}{(H8804)} when he spake{H1696}{(H8763)}: I sought{H1245}{(H8765)} him, but I could not find{H4672}{(H8804)} him; I called{H7121}{(H8804)} him, but he gave me no answer{H6030}{(H8804)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Neuerthelesse wha I had opened vnto my beloued, he was departed, and gone his waye. Now like as afore tyme whan he spake, my hert coude no longer refrayne: Euen so now I sought hi, but I coude not fynde him: I cried vpon him, neuerthelesse he gaue me no answere.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    I opened to my welbeloued: but my welbeloued was gone, and past: mine heart was gone when hee did speake: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I called him, but hee answered mee not.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    I opened vnto my beloued, but he was departed and gone his way: Now whe he spake, my heart was gone: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I cryed vpon hym, neuerthelesse he gaue me no aunswere.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    I opened to my beloved; But my beloved left; gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew -- he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    I opened for my beloved, but my lover had already turned and gone away. I fell into despair when he departed. I looked for him but did not find him; I called him but he did not answer me.

Referenced Verses

  • Song 5:2 : 2 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 undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
  • Song 5:4 : 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my heart was moved for him.
  • Song 6:1 : 1 Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned aside? That we may seek him with you.
  • Isa 8:17 : 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, who hides His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him.
  • Isa 12:1 : 1 And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me.
  • Isa 50:2 : 2 Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink because there is no water and die for thirst.
  • Isa 54:6-8 : 6 For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you. 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
  • Isa 58:2 : 2 Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice and take delight in approaching God.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
  • Hos 5:6 : 6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
  • Hos 5:15 : 15 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
  • Zech 7:13 : 13 Therefore it has come to pass, that just as He called and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts:
  • Matt 15:22-28 : 22 And behold, a woman of Canaan came out from those coasts, and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon. 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and asked him, saying, Send her away; for she cries after us. 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25 Then she came and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me. 26 But he answered and said, It is not right to take the children's bread, and throw it to dogs. 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. 28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith: be it to you even as you will. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
  • Matt 26:75 : 75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said to him, Before the rooster crows, you shall deny me three times. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
  • Mark 14:72 : 72 And the second time the rooster crowed. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus said to him, Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times. And when he thought on it, he wept.
  • Luke 22:61-62 : 61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, Before the rooster crows, you shall deny me three times. 62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
  • Gen 42:28 : 28 And he said to his brothers, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their hearts failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God has done to us?
  • 1 Sam 28:6 : 6 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
  • 2 Sam 16:10 : 10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the LORD has said to him, Curse David. Who then shall say, Why have you done so?
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 28:1 : 1 To you I cry, O LORD my rock; do not be silent to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.
  • Ps 30:7 : 7 LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain stand strong: you hid your face, and I was troubled.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
  • Ps 77:3 : 3 I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
  • Ps 88:9-9 : 9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction; LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands to you. 10 Will you show wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah. 11 Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall your wonders be known in the dark, and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But to you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning my prayer comes before you. 14 LORD, why do you cast off my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
  • Song 3:1-2 : 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 6:1-3
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    84%

    1 Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned aside? That we may seek him with you.

    2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

    3 I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.

  • Song 3:1-6
    6 verses
    83%

    1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him.

    2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him.

    3 The watchmen who go about the city found me: to whom I said, Have you seen him whom my soul loves?

    4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

    5 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that you do not stir up nor awaken my love until he pleases.

    6 Who is this coming out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the powders of the merchant?

  • Song 5:7-9
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    7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they struck me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

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    1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.

    2 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 undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

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

    4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my heart was moved for him.

    5 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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    6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

    7 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and by the does of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken my love until he pleases.

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  • Song 7:10-12
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    10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

    11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

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    2 verses
    74%

    16 My beloved is mine, and I am his; he feeds among the lilies.

    17 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young deer upon the mountains of Bether.

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    6 Until the day breaks, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 1:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me; he shall lie all night between my breasts.

    14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blooms in the vineyards of Engedi.

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    19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders have died in the city, while they sought food to relieve their souls.

  • Song 4:9
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    9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

  • Song 1:4
    72%

    4 Draw me, we will run after you; the king has brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in you, we will remember your love more than wine; the upright love you.

  • Ps 38:10
    72%

    10 My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

  • Song 2:14
    72%

    14 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 sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.

  • Song 8:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    3 His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand would embrace me.

    4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not stir up or awaken my love until he pleases.

    5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised you up under the apple tree; there your mother brought you forth; there she gave birth to you.

  • Song 8:1
    72%

    1 Oh, that you were like my brother, who nursed at my mother's breasts! When I find you outside, I would kiss you, and I would not be despised.

  • Job 19:16
    72%

    16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I pleaded with him with my mouth.

  • Song 4:12
    72%

    12 A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

  • Song 4:16
    72%

    16 Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; blow upon my garden, that the spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

  • Song 6:5
    71%

    5 Turn your eyes away from me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead.

  • Song 6:12
    71%

    12 Before I was aware, my soul set me among the chariots of Amminadib.

  • Song 5:16
    71%

    16 His mouth is most sweet: yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • Song 8:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 You who dwell in the gardens, the companions listen for your voice: cause me to hear it.

    14 Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spices.

  • Song 6:10
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    10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

  • Prov 7:15
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    15 So I came out to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.

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