Song of Solomon 5:8

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

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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 went about the city found me, they stroke me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

9What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women? what is your beloved more than another beloved, that you do so charge us?

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Cross References

Psalms 63:1O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

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

Song of Solomon 2:7I charge you, O all of you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that all of you stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Song of Solomon 8:4I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that all of you stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

Galatians 6:1Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, all of you which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit (o. pneuma) of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also 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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