Song of Solomon 5:8

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him that I am sick from love.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

In Context

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

9What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved, that thou do so adjure us?

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Cross References

Psalms 63:1O God, thou are my God. I will earnestly seek thee. My soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for thee, in a dry and weary land, where is no water.

Psalms 119:81My soul faints for thy salvation. I hope in thy word.

Song of Solomon 2:7I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake love, until it please.

Song of Solomon 8:4I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake love, until it please.

Galatians 6:1And brothers, if a man is overtaken in some transgression, ye the spiritual, restore such in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself lest thou also be tempted.

Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 5:3-9

The Love of Christ to the Church; Spiritual Desertion. 2 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 night. 3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with… Read the whole commentary →

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