Song of Solomon 5:8

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

²I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one." My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night. ³I have taken off my robe-must I put it back on? I have washed my feet-must I soil them again? ⁴My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him. ⁵I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt. ⁶I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer. ⁷I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls. ⁸O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.

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charge: Song of Solomon 2:7, Song of Solomon 8:4

if ye: Romans 15:30, Galatians 6:1, Galatians 6:2, James 5:16

that ye: Heb. what ye

I am: Psalms 42:1-3, Psalms 63:1-3, Psalms 77:1-3, Psalms 119:81-83

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 13:2 - vexed 2 Chronicles 9:4 - there was Psalms 45:14 - virgins Psalms 84:2 - soul Psalms 119:20 - soul Psalms 119:174 - longed Proverbs 13:12 - Hope Song of Solomon 1:7 - O thou Song of Solomon 2:5 - for Song of Solomon 3:1 - him whom Song of Solomon 8:6 - love Isaiah 26:8 - desire Matthew 25:1 - ten Luke 5:34 - the children Luke 23:28 - daughters

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,.... Young converts, as before observed; who, upon the hideous outcry the church made in the streets, came to her to know what was the matter, whom she addressed as after related; this shows the humility and condescension of the church, in desiring the assistance of weaker saints in her present case, and her earnestness and resolution to make use of all ways and means she could to find her beloved; and it becomes saints to be assisting to one another; and conversation with one another, even with weak believers, is often useful. And these the church "adjures", or "causes to swear" p; charged them on oath, as they would answer it to God; which shows the strength of her love, her sincerity, and seriousness in her inquiry after him:

if ye find my beloved; who had but little knowledge of him, and communion with him, since at present he was yet to be found by them; and it was possible, notwithstanding, that they might find him before she did, as Christ showed himself to Mary Magdalene, before he did to the disciples. The charge she gave them is,

that ye tell him that I [am] sick of love; or, "what shall ye", or "should ye tell him?" q not her blows and wounds, the injuries and affronts she had received from the watchmen and keepers of the wall; nor many things, only this one thing, which was most on her heart, uppermost in her mind, and under which she must die, if not relieved, "tell him that I [am] sick of love"; and that for him, through his absence, and her eager longing after him, and the discoveries of his love to her; and which, though not incurable, nor a sickness unto death, for Christ suffers none to die through love to him, yet is a very painful one; and is to be known by a soul's panting after Christ, and its prodigious jealousy of his love, and by its carefulness, diligence, and industry, to enjoy the manifestations of it. Of this love sickness, :-.

p השבעתי ωρκισα, Sept. "adjuro", V. L. Pagninus, c. q מה תגידו לו "quid narrabitis ei?" Pagninus, Michaelis "quid indicabitis ei?" Montanus, Marckius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The bride, now awake, is seeking her beloved. The dream of his departure and her feelings under it have symbolized a real emotion of her waking heart.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Song of Solomon 5:8. I am sick of love. — "I am exceedingly concerned for his absence; and am distressed on account of my thoughtless carriage towards him." The latter clause may be well translated, "What should ye tell him?" Why, "that I am sick of love." This ends the transactions of the third day and night.