Bible Chapter Summary
Solomon's Song 5 Summary
Mutual Love and Passionate Seeking
The groom enters his garden and eats pleasant fruits, inviting friends to eat and drink abundantly. The bride relates that while she slept, her beloved knocked at her door asking her to open to him, but she hesitated in removing her coat and washing her feet. By the time she opened, he had withdrawn and gone, leaving her soul failing. She sought him calling out but he gave no answer. The watchmen found and wounded her, taking away her veil. She charges the daughters of Jerusalem to tell her beloved that she is sick of love. She then describes her beloved in detail—white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand, with a countenance like Lebanon and lips dropping sweet-smelling myrrh.
Key themes
Key verses
Solomon's Song 5:2
“I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.”
Solomon's Song 5:6
“I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.”
Solomon's Song 5:8
“I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.”
Solomon's Song 5:16
“His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.”
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