Song of Solomon 5:8

I 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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

In Context

7The 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

9What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, 1 O thou beautiful among women? 1 What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, 1 That thou hast so charged us? 1

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Cross References

Psalms 63:1For the end, a Psalm of David. 1

Song of Solomon 2:7I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, 1 By the powers and by the virtues of the field, 1 That ye do not rouse or wake my love, until he please. 1

Song of Solomon 8:4I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, 1 By the virtues of the field, 1 That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. 1

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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