Song of Solomon 5:3

I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?

Majority Standard Bible

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 is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

4My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.

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Cross References

Proverbs 3:28Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”—when you already have the means.

Proverbs 22:13The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

Matthew 26:38Then Jesus said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”

Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

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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