Song of Solomon 5:2
I was asleep, but my heart awoke. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled. For my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
Cross References
Genesis 29:20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Psalms 24:7Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Psalms 119:1Blessed are those who are perfect in the way, who walk in the law of LORD.
Song of Solomon 2:8The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
Song of Solomon 2:14O my dove, who are in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the steep place, let me see thy countenance; let me hear thy voice. For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
Song of Solomon 4:7Thou are all fair, my love, and there is no spot in thee.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 5:2
The Love of Christ to the Church. 1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. These words are Christ's answer to the church's prayer in the close of the foregoing chapter, Let my beloved come into his garden; here he has come, and lets her know it. See how ready God is to hear prayer, how ready Christ is to accept the invitations that his… Read the whole commentary →