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 ]