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?

Leeser Tanakh

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 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.”

4My friend stretched forth his hand through the opening, and my inmost parts were moved for him.

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Cross References

Proverbs 3:28Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and return, and tomorrow will I give: when thou hast it by thee.

Proverbs 22:13The slothful saith, There is a lion without, in the midst of the streets shall I be murdered.

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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