7The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.


In Context

4 My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

5 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

6 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.

7 The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends

9 How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? Beloved

Song of Solomon 5:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:7The 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:7The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls!

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:7The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:7The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:7The 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:7The watchmen that go about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:7The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my vail from me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:7The watchmen who go round about the city, Found me, smote me, wounded me, Keepers of the walls lifted up my veil from off me.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:7The 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.