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Song of Solomon 5
I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride
The Honeymoon Painfully Ends1
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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."
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I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on?I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
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My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening.My heart pounded for him.
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I rose up to open for my beloved.My hands dripped with myrrh,my fingers with liquid myrrh,on the handles of the lock.
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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.
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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.
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I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,If you find my beloved,that you tell him that I am faint with love.
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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?
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My beloved is white and ruddy.The best among ten thousand.
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His head is like the purest gold.His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
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His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks,washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
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His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl.His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
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His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
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His mouth is sweetness;yes, he is altogether lovely.This is my beloved, and this is my friend,daughters of Jerusalem.
So 5:1-16.
1. Answer to her prayer (Isa 65:24; Re 3:20).
am come--already (So 4:16); "come" (Ge 28:16).
sister . . . spouse--As Adam's was created of his flesh, out of his opened side, there being none on earth on a level with him, so the bride out of the pierced Saviour (Eph 5:30-32).
have gathered . . . myrrh--His course was already complete; the myrrh, &c. (Mt 2:11; 26:7-12; Joh 19:39), emblems of the indwelling of the anointing Holy Ghost, were already gathered.
spice--literally, "balsam."
have eaten--answering to her "eat" (So 4:16).
honeycomb--distinguished here from liquid "honey" dropping from trees. The last supper, here set forth, is one of espousal, a pledge of the future marriage (So 8:14; Re 19:9). Feasts often took place in gardens. In the absence of sugar, then unknown, honey was more widely used than with us. His eating honey with milk indicates His true, yet spotless, human nature from infancy (Isa 7:15); and after His resurrection (Lu 24:42).
my wine-- (Joh 18:11) --a cup of wrath to Him, of mercy to us, whereby God's Word and promises become to us "milk" (Ps 19:10; 1Pe 2:2). "My" answers to "His" (So 4:16). The myrrh (emblem, by its bitterness, of repentance), honey, milk (incipient faith), wine (strong faith), in reference to believers, imply that He accepts all their graces, however various in degree.
eat--He desires to make us partakers in His joy (Isa 55:1, 2; Joh 6:53-57; 1Jo 1:3).
drink abundantly--so as to be filled (Eph 5:18; as Hag 1:6).
friends-- (Joh 15:15).