Song of Solomon 5:7

The watchmen that go their rounds in the city found me, 1 They smote me, they wounded me; 1 The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

In Context

6I opened to my kinsman; 1 My kinsman was gone: 1 My soul failed at his speech: 1 I sought him, but found him not; 1 I called him, but he answered me not. 1

8I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, 1 By the powers and the virtues of the field: 1 If ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? 1 That I am wounded with love. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 141:5I looked on my right hand, and behold, 1 For there was none that noticed me; 1 Refuge failed me; 1 And there was none that cared for my soul. 1

Song of Solomon 8:11Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon; 1 He let his vineyard to keepers; 1 Every one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver. 1

Isaiah 6:10For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Hosea 6:5Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgment shall go forth as the light.

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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