The Bridegroom’s Response CHAPTER 5 Song of Solomon 5:1 SCENE SECOND. Place: _Banquet Hall in the Palace_. Speaker: _The King_ TO THE BRIDE 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 m... [ Continue Reading ]
NOTES Song of Solomon 5:2: _I sleep, but my heart waketh_. ‘Sleep,’ יְשֵׁנָה _yeshenah_, a participle or adjective, from יָשֵׁן to sleep. GESENIUS. The connection with what follows gives to יְשֵׁנָה and עֵר the sense of imperfects: ‘I was sleeping,’ &c. ZÖCKLER, HITZIG. So GOOD, PERCY, BOOTHROYD, &c... [ Continue Reading ]
THE UNKIND RESPONSE Song of Solomon 5:3 SHULAMITE I have put off my coat; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; How shall I defile them? Sad answer from the beloved spouse of a king. More like the answer in a dream than in reality. The language only of one oppressed with physical or m... [ Continue Reading ]
NOTES Song of Solomon 5:4: _My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door_. ‘By the hole of the door’ (מִן־הָחוֹר, _min ha-khor_; literally ‘from the hole’). Through the latticed window. ZÖCKLER. The opening which served for a window. EWALD. At the window or casement. PATRICK. Probably rather a... [ Continue Reading ]
NOTES Song of Solomon 5:5: _My hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling on the handles of the lock_. ‘Dropped with myrrh.’ נָטְפוּ־מוֹר _natephu mor_, literally ‘dropped myrrh.’ So SEPTUAGINT, VULGATE, LUTHER, &c. MAR TIN: The myrrh dropping from my hand. The myrrh from Solomon’s... [ Continue Reading ]
NOTES Song of Solomon 5:6. ‘_My soul failed when He spate_.’ ‘My soul failed.’ נַפְשִׁי יָצְאָה _naphshi yatseah_, literally, ‘went forth.’ Failed, or fainted; breath forsook me; my soul almost went out of me. ZÖCKLER, EWALD, DELIZTSCH. Sunk. BURROUGHS. I swooned away, and was like a dead body (Gen... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEARCH AND ITS RESULTS Song of Solomon 5:7 The watchmen that went about the city Found me; they smote me; they wounded me: The keepers of the walls Took away my veil from me. A painful experience awaited the Bride on returning to herself and her duty. Those who should have been for her protect... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHARGE Song of Solomon 5:8 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem; If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him that I am sick of love. Shulamite probably still relates her dream. Receiving stripes instead of sympathy from the watchmen, she addressed herself to the women of the city. Such incon... [ Continue Reading ]
FIRST ENQUIRY BY THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM Song of Solomon 5:9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so charge us? Greater tenderness and consideration from the daughters of Jerusalem than from the... [ Continue Reading ]
SHULAMITE’S DESCRIPTION OF HER BELOVED Song of Solomon 5:10 SHULAMITE My beloved is white and ruddy, The chief among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold; His locks are bushy, And black as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of doves, By the rivers of waters, Washed with milk, And fitly... [ Continue Reading ]