Song of Solomon Chapter 5

From The Open Bible Project

5:1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved

• (a) The garden signifies the kingdom of Christ, where he prepares the banquet for his elect.

5:2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."

• (b) The spouse says that she is troubled with the cares of worldly things, which is meant by sleeping.
• (c) Declaring the long patience of the Lord toward sinners.

5:3 I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?

• (d) The spouse confesses her nakedness, and that of herself she has nothing, or seeing that she is once made clean she promises not to defile herself again.

5:4 My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

5:5 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

• (e) The spouse who should be anointed by Christ will not find him if she thinks to anoint him with her good works.

5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.

5:7 The 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.

• (f) These are the false teachers who wound the conscience with their traditions.

5:8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends

• (g) She asks of them who are godly (as the law and salvation should come out of Zion and Jerusalem) that they would direct her to Christ.

5:9 How 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

• (h) Thus say they of Jerusalem.

5:10 My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.

5:11 His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.

• (i) She describes Christ to be of perfect beauty and comeliness.

5:12 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

5:13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

5:14 His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.

5:15 His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

5:16 His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. Friends