The spouse says that she is troubled with the cares of worldly things, which is meant by sleeping.          I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [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  Declaring the long patience of the Lord toward sinners.  night.