Song of Solomon 5:8

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,If you find my beloved,that you tell him that I am faint with love.Friends

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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

7The watchmen who go about the city found me.They beat me.They bruised me.The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

9How is your beloved better than another beloved,you fairest among women?How is your beloved better than another beloved,that you do so adjure us?Beloved

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Cross References

Psalms 63:1A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah.God, you are my God.I will earnestly seek you.My soul thirsts for you.My flesh longs for you,in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

Psalms 119:81My soul faints for your salvation.I hope in your word.

Song of Solomon 2:7I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,that you not stir up, nor awaken love,until it so desires.

Song of Solomon 8:4I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,that you not stir up, nor awaken love,until it so desires.Friends

Galatians 6:1Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also are not 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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