Song of Solomon 5:9
What 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?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
10My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.
Cross References
Psalms 45:13And the daughters of Tyre with gifts, yea, all the rich among the people, shall entreat thy countenance.
Song of Solomon 1:8To my company of horsemen, in Pharao's chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.
Song of Solomon 6:9Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?
Matthew 16:13And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is?
John 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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 →