Then all the maidens rose and trimmed their lamps.
Keep your loins girt and your lamps lit,
Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.
Wake up, rally what is still left to you, though it is on the very point of death; for I find nothing you have done is complete in the eyes of my God.
Then shall the Realm of heaven be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.
But at midnight the cry arose, 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!'
The stupid said to the sensible, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'