Song of Solomon 5:4
Groom to Bride: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my immaculate one. For my head is full of dew, and the locks of my hair are full of the drops of the night.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
In Context
3Bride: I sleep, yet my heart watches. The voice of my beloved knocking:
Cross References
1 Kings 3:26But the woman, whose son was alive, said to the king, for her heart was moved concerning her son, “I beg you, my lord, give the living infant to her, and do not kill him.” To the contrary, the other said, “Let it be neither for me, nor for you, instead divide it.”
Song of Solomon 1:4Bride to Chorus: O daughters of Jerusalem: I am black, but shapely, like the tabernacles of Kedar, like the tents of Solomon.
Acts 16:14And a certain woman, named Lydia, a seller of purple in the city of Thyatira, a worshiper of God, listened. And the Lord opened her heart to be receptive to what Paul was saying.
2 Corinthians 8:16But thanks be to God, who has granted to the heart of Titus, this same solicitude for you.
1 John 3:16We know the love of God in this way: because he laid down his life for us. And so, we must lay down our lives for our brothers.
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 →