As I was reading the Bible today...

[erinjeanie]

Not exactly a sentence you hear everyday. But really though, as I was reading all of Genesis, I decided to just skim through, see what this book is really made of. And I found this...

A Fruitless Search

I was sleeping, but my heart kept
vigil;
I heard my lover knocking:
"Open to me, my sister, my beloved,
my dove, my perfect one!
For my head is wet with dew,
my locks with the moisture of the
night."
I have taken off my robe,
am I to put it back on?
I have bathed my feet,
am I to soil them?

My lover put his hand through the
opening;
my heart trembled within me,
and I grew faint when he spoke.
I rose to open to my lover,
with my hands dripping myrrh:
With my hands dripping choice
myrrh
upon the fittings of the lock.
I opened to my lover-
but mt lover had departed, gone.
I sought him but I did not find
him;
I called to him but he did not answer
me.

The watchmen came upon me
as they made their rounds of the
city;
They struck me, and wounded me,
and took my mantle from me,
the guardians of the walls.
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
if you find my lover-
What shall you tell him?-
that I am faint with love.

Songs 5:2-8