Song of Solomon 5:8

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

9What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, O thou most beautiful among women? what manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, that thou hast so adjured us?

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Cross References

Psalms 63:1A psalm of David when he was in the desert of Edom.

Song of Solomon 2:7I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the, fields, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Song of Solomon 8:4I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.

Galatians 6:1Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering 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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