Song of Solomon 5:2
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
3I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
Cross References
Genesis 29:20Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Psalms 24:7Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Psalms 119:1Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the LORD’s law.
Song of Solomon 2:8The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.
Song of Solomon 2:14My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
Song of Solomon 4:7You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 5:2
The Love of Christ to the Church. 1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. These words are Christ's answer to the church's prayer in the close of the foregoing chapter, Let my beloved come into his garden; here he has come, and lets her know it. See how ready God is to hear prayer, how ready Christ is to accept the invitations that his… Read the whole commentary →