The Nightmare

Recently perusing Song of Songs (again)…this 2,000+ year old book in the Bible covers SO many aspects of romantic relations still very relevant (especially sex for the purpose of marital intimacy, expressing true love, and pleasure- children  are never mentioned). I encourage everyone to read it. The following passage is a nightmare the bride has.

I slept, but my heart was awake.

A sound! My beloved is knocking.

“Open to me, my love,

    my dove, my perfect one,

for my head is wet with dew,

    my locks with the drops of the night.”

3 

I had put off my garment;

    how could I put it on?

I had bathed my feet;

    how could I soil them?

4 

My beloved put his hand to the latch,

    and my heart was thrilled within me.

5 

I arose to open to my beloved,

    and my hands dripped with myrrh,

my fingers with liquid myrrh,

    on the handles of the bolt.

6 

I opened to my beloved,

    but my beloved had turned and gone.

My soul failed me when he spoke.

I sought him, but found him not;

    I called him, but he gave no answer.

7 

The watchmen found me

    as they went about in the city;

they beat me, they bruised me,

    they took away my veil,

    those watchmen of the walls.

8 

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,

    if you find my beloved,

that you tell him

    I am sick with love.

Song of Songs 5:2-8

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