Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Song of Solomon 5:2:
- Kupsabiny: “I have slept with one eye open.
Look! My man is at the door knocking/waking (me).
He says,
‘Please open the door for me, my maiden, oh, my beloved!
Oh, my dove, my loved one!
The dew has made my hair wet
and the hoar frost of the night has made me soft/wet’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Newari: “I slept but my heart was awake.
Look, my beloved is knocking at the door.
‘My darling, open the door.
My blameless dove, my head is wet with dew.
My hair with the dampness of the night."” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “While I was-sleeping I had-a-dream. I heard that my beloved was-knocking. He said, ‘Open-up-for me, O my beloved who (is) so beautiful. For my head (is) now wet with dew.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I was partially asleep, but my mind was still awake.
Then I heard the one who loves me knocking at the door.
He said, ‘My darling, you who are dearer to me than my sister, my dear friend, my perfect one, my dove ,
open the door for me!
My hair is wet from the dew,
from the mist that has fallen during the night.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
