Song of Solomon 5:8

O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.

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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

7I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.

9How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?

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Cross References

Psalms 63:1A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

Psalms 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

Song of Solomon 2:7O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

Song of Solomon 8:4O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

Galatians 6:1Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.

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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