Song of Solomon 5:3

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

In Context

2I sleep, but my heart waketh; Hark! my beloved knocketh: '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.'

4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my heart was moved for him.

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Cross References

Proverbs 3:28Say not unto thy neighbour: 'Go, and come again, and to-morrow I will give'; when thou hast it by thee.

Proverbs 22:13The sluggard saith: 'There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.'

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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