Song of Solomon 5:2
I slept, but my heart was awake: [there was] the voice of my beloved that knocked, “Open for me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my guiltless one; for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.”
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
3I have put off my coat: how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet: how shall I defile them?
Cross References
Genesis 29:20And Jacob served for Rachel seven years; and they seemed unto him but a few days, through the love he had to her.
Psalms 24:7Raise your heads, O ye gates; and be raised wide, ye everlasting doors: and let the King of glory enter!
Psalms 119:1ALEPH. Happy are they whose way is perfect, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Song of Solomon 2:8The voice of my friend! behold, there he cometh, leaping over the mountains, skipping over the hills.
Song of Solomon 2:14O my dove, who art in the clefts of the rock, in the recesses of the cliffs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet, and thy countenance is comely.—
Song of Solomon 4:7Thou art altogether beautiful, my beloved, and there is no blemish on thee.—
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 5:2
The Love of Christ to the Church. 1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. These words are Christ's answer to the church's prayer in the close of the foregoing chapter, Let my beloved come into his garden; here he has come, and lets her know it. See how ready God is to hear prayer, how ready Christ is to accept the invitations that his… Read the whole commentary →