Song of Solomon 5:2

I sleep, but my heart waketh This clause states the circumstances under which the succeeding action takes place. As the dream is narrated at a later time, the participles should be rendered by the past tense, I was sleeping, but my heart was awake.

it is the voice of, &c. Rather, Hark! my love is knocking.

my sister Oettli says Solomon never calls the Shulammite by this intimate name. Budde thinks it significant that he does not here call her kallâh= -bride." Evidently he thinks that a post-nuptial word, but it is not necessarily so.

my undefiled Rather, -my perfect" or -immaculate one."

filledwith dew The dew in Palestine is often very heavy. Cp. Judges 6:38. From the fact that he about whom she dreamed is imagined to be in such a case, it is probable that the shepherd lover rather than Solomon is the object of her thoughts, and that she dreams of him as coming to her mother's house.