(KJV) Song of Solomon 51

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⥃The Bridegroom

[1] I am come2 into my garden, my sister3, [my] spouse: I have gathered4 my myrrh with my spice; I have eat5en my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends6; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved7.

⥃The Bride

[2] I sleep8, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice9 of my beloved that knocketh10, [saying], Open11 to me, my sister, my love, my dove12, my undefiled: for my head13 is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night. [3] I have put14 off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed15 my feet; how shall I defile them? [4] My beloved put16 in his hand by the hole [of the door], and my bowels17 were moved for him18. [5] I rose19 up to open to my beloved; and my hands20 dropped [with] myrrh, and my fingers [with] sweet smelling21 myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. [6] I opened to my beloved; but my22 beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul23 failed when he spake: I sought24 him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. [7] The watchmen25 that went about the city found me, they smote26 me, they wounded me; the keepers27 of the walls took28 away my veil from me. [8] I charge29 you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye30 find my beloved, that ye31 tell him, that I [am32] sick of love.

⥃The Friends

[9] What [is33] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou34 fairest among women? what [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

⥃The Bride

[10] My beloved35 [is] white and ruddy, the chiefest36 among ten thousand. [11] His head37 [is as] the most fine gold, his locks38 [are] bushy39, [and] black as a raven. [12] His eyes40 [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set41. [13] His cheeks42 [are] as a43 bed of spices, [as] sweet flowers44: his lips45 [like] lilies, dropping46 sweet smelling myrrh. [14] His hands47 [are as] gold rings set with the beryl: his belly48 [is as] bright ivory overlaid [with] sapphires. [15] His legs49 [are as] pillars of marble, set upon sockets50 of fine gold: his countenance51 [is] as Lebanon52, excellent as the cedars. [16] His mouth53 [is] most54 sweet: yea, he [is] altogether lovely. This [is] my beloved55, and this [is] my friend56, O daughters of Jerusalem.

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  1. Song 5:1, Christ awakes the church with his calling; Song 5:2, The church having a taste of Christ’s love, is sick of love; Song 5:9, A description of Christ by his graces. ↩

  2. Song 4:16, Song 6:2, Song 6:11, Song 8:13; Isa 5:1, Isa 51:3, Isa 58:11, Isa 61:11; John 14:21-23 ↩

  3. Song 4:9-12, Song 8:1; Heb 2:12-14 ↩

  4. Song 4:13-14; Ps 147:11; Isa 53:11 ↩

  5. Deut 16:13-17, Deut 26:10-14; 2Chr 31:6-10; Ps 16:3; Isa 23:18, Isa 55:1-2; Isa 62:8-9, Isa 65:13, Isa 66:14; Matt 25:40; Acts 11:29; 2Cor 9:11-15; Eph 5:18; 1Thess 3:8-9 ↩

  6. Luke 12:4, Luke 15:6-7, Luke 15:9-10; John 3:29, John 15:14-15 ↩

  7. or, and be drunken with loves, Zech 9:15-17; Rev 22:17 ↩

  8. Song 3:1, Song 7:9; Dan 8:18; Zech 4:1; Matt 25:4-5, Matt 26:40-41; Luke 9:32; Eph 5:14 ↩

  9. Song 2:8, Song 2:10; John 10:4 ↩

  10. Rev 3:20 ↩

  11. Ps 24:7-10, Ps 81:10; Prov 23:26 ↩

  12. Song 2:14, Song 6:9; Ps 119:1; Rev 3:4, Rev 14:4 ↩

  13. Song 8:7; Gen 29:20, Gen 31:40-41; Isa 50:6, Isa 52:14, Isa 53:3-5; Matt 8:17, Matt 25:35-45; Mark 1:35; Luke 6:12, Luke 22:44; 2Cor 5:14-15; Gal 2:20 ↩

  14. Prov 3:28, Prov 13:4, Prov 22:13; Matt 25:5, Matt 26:38-43; Luke 11:7; Rom 7:22-23 ↩

  15. As the Orientals only wear sandals, they are obliged to wash their feet previously to their lying down. Hence a Hindoo, if called from his bed, often makes his excuse that he shall daub his feet. ↩

  16. Song 1:4; Ps 110:3; Acts 16:14; 2Cor 8:1-2, 2Cor 8:16; Phil 2:13 ↩

  17. Gen 43:30; 1Kgs 3:26; Isa 26:8-9; 1John 3:16-17 ↩

  18. or (as some read) in me ↩

  19. Song 5:2; Luke 12:36; Eph 3:17; Rev 3:20 ↩

  20. Song 5:13, Song 3:6, Song 4:13-14; 2Cor 7:7, 2Cor 7:9-11 ↩

  21. Heb. passing, or running about ↩

  22. Ps 30:7; Isa 8:17, Isa 12:1, Isa 50:2, Isa 54:6-8; Hos 5:6, Hos 5:15; Matt 15:22-28; Rev 3:19 ↩

  23. Song 5:2, Song 5:4; Gen 42:28; 2Sam 16:10; Ps 69:3, Ps 77:3; Isa 57:16; Matt 26:75; Mark 14:72; Luke 22:61-62 ↩

  24. Song 3:1-2; 1Sam 28:6; Ps 22:1-2, Ps 28:1, Ps 80:4, Ps 88:9-14; Isa 58:2-4, Isa 58:7-9; Lam 3:8; Zech 7:13 ↩

  25. Song 3:3; Isa 6:10-11; Hos 9:7-8; Acts 20:29-30; 2Cor 11:13 ↩

  26. Ps 141:5; Hos 6:5; John 16:2; Acts 26:9-10; Phil 3:6; Rev 17:5-6 ↩

  27. Song 8:11; Isa 62:6; Matt 21:33-41, Matt 23:2, Matt 23:29-36 ↩

  28. Luke 6:22; Acts 5:40-41; 1Cor 4:10-13; Heb 11:36-37, Heb 12:2; 1Pet 4:14-16 ↩

  29. Song 2:7, Song 8:4 ↩

  30. Rom 15:30; Gal 6:1-2; Jas 5:16 ↩

  31. Heb. what ye ↩

  32. Ps 42:1-3, Ps 63:1-3, Ps 77:1-3, Ps 119:81-83 ↩

  33. Isa 53:2; Matt 16:13-17, Matt 21:10; John 1:14; 2Cor 4:3-6 ↩

  34. Song 1:8, Song 6:1, Song 6:9-10; Ps 45:13, Ps 87:3 ↩

  35. Song 2:1; Deut 32:31; Ps 45:17; Isa 66:19; Heb 7:26 ↩

  36. Heb. a standard bearer, Isa 10:18, Isa 59:19; Rom 9:5; Phil 2:9-11; Col 1:18; Heb 2:10 ↩

  37. Dan 2:37-38; Eph 1:21-22 ↩

  38. Song 7:5; Dan 7:9; Rev 1:14 ↩

  39. or, curled ↩

  40. Rather, "His eyes are as doves;" the deep blue pigeon, the common dove in the East, whose brilliant plumage vibrates around his neck every sparkling hue, every dazzling flash of colour. And this pigeon standing amid "the torrents of water," or the foam of a waterfall, would be a blue centre with a bright space like the iris of the eye, surrounded by the white. Song 1:15, Song 4:1; Heb 4:13 ↩

  41. Heb. sitting in fulness, that is, fitly placed, and set as a precious stone in the foil of a ring. ↩

  42. Song 1:10; Isa 50:6 ↩

  43. Ps 4:6-7, Ps 27:4, Ps 89:15; Rev 21:23 ↩

  44. or, towers of perfumes, Song 3:6 ↩

  45. Song 4:11; Ps 45:2; Isa 50:4; Luke 4:22 ↩

  46. Song 5:5 ↩

  47. Exod 15:6; Ps 44:4-7, Ps 99:4; Isa 9:7, Isa 52:13 ↩

  48. Song 7:2; Exod 24:10; Isa 54:11; Ezek 1:26-28 ↩

  49. Rev 1:15 ↩

  50. Exod 26:19 ↩

  51. Song 2:14; Judg 13:6; Matt 17:2, Matt 28:3; Acts 2:28; Rev 1:16 ↩

  52. Song 4:11; Ps 92:12; Hos 14:7; Zech 9:17; 1Tim 3:16 ↩

  53. Heb. palate, Song 1:2; Ps 19:10, Ps 119:103; Jer 15:16 ↩

  54. Song 1:16, Song 2:1, Song 2:3; Ps 45:2, Ps 89:6, Ps 148:13; Isa 9:6-7; Phil 3:8; 1Pet 2:6-7 ↩

  55. Song 2:16, Song 6:3; Gal 2:20 ↩

  56. Jer 3:20 *marg. Hos 3:1; Jas 2:23, Jas 4:4 ↩