b ch. 4. 10. + Heb. thy loves. © Hos. 11. 4. John 6. 44. & 12. 32. d Phil. 3. 12, 13, 14. e Ps. 45. 14, 15, John 14. 2. Eph. 2. 6. 1Or, they love thee uprightly. THE SONG OF SOLOMON. CHAPTER I. 1 The church's lore unto Christ. 5 She confesseth her deformity, 7 and prayeth to be directed to his flock. 8 Christ directeth her to the shepherds' tents: 9 and shewing his love to her, 11 giveth her gracious promises. 12 The church and Christ con gratulate one another. a THE Song of songs, which is Solomon's. the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Before CHRIST about 1014. 7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside or, by the flocks of thy compan as one that is vailed. 1. 2 Let him kiss me with the 8 If thou know not, fO thou fch. 5. 9.& 6. kisses of his mouth: for thy fairest among women, go thy love is better than wine. way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents. 3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. e 4 c Draw me, d we will run after thee: the King hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. 5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me: they made me the keeper of John 15. 14, 15. 10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with 2 Chr. 1. 16, chains of gold. 11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver. 12 While the King sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. 13 A bundle of myrrh is my well beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. 14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi. 15 Behold, thou art fair, The mutual love of Before CHRIST about 1014. Or. galleries. † Heb. I delighted and sat down, & Rev. 22. 1,2. ↑ Heb. palate. Heb. house of wine. ↑ Heb. strew me love; behold, thou art fair; thou | thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, 16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green. 17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. CHAPTER II. 1 The mutual love of Christ and his church. 8 The hope, 10 and calling of the church. I AM the rose of Sharon, and 2 As the lily among thorns, so 4 He brought me to the tbanqueting house, and his banner over me was love. 5 Stay me with flagons, † comwith apples. fort me with apples: for I am sick of love. b ch. 8. 3. † Heb. I ad jure you. © ch. 3. 5. & 8. 4. d ver. 17. 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. 7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. 8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. night on my bed I sought Is. 26. 9. him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 b The watchmen that go about bel. 5. 7. the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 4. 5 I charge you, O ye daugh- ch. 2.7.& 8. ters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake 9 d My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he stand-my love, till he please. eth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing flourishing. himself through the lattice. † Heb. e ver. 13. f ver. 10. E ch. 8. 13. 10 My beloved spake, and said 11 For, lo, the winter is past, 13 The fig tree putteth forth her 64 Who is this that cometh d ch. 8. 5. out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? 7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. 8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. 9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Leba- Or, a bed. non. 10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of 140 my dove, that art in the gold, the covering of it of purclefts of the rock, in the secret ple, the midst thereof being places of the stairs, let me see paved with love, for the daughthy countenance, let me hearters of Jerusalem. ch. 7. 4. f Neh. 3. 19. 8 See Prov. 5. 19. ch. 7. 3. h ch. 2. 17. t Heb. breathe. i Eph. 5. 27. k Deut. 3. 9. JOr, taken away my heart. 1 ch. 1. 2. 14. ch. 5. 1. 2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. 3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. 4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. 5 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies. 6 h Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. 7 Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. 8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir k and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards. 9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. 10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! 11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop Prov. 24.13, as the honeycomb: mhoney and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is n like the smell of Lebanon. 12 A garden inclosed is my n Gen. 27. 27. Hos. 14. 6, 7. † Heb. barred. Christ's love to the church. Before CHRIST about 1014. sister, my spouse; a spring shut' up, a fountain sealed. 13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spike- Or, cypress, nard, 14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. 16 ch. 1. 14. Jolin 4. 10. & 7. 38. Awake, O north wind; ! and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. P Let my Pch. 5. 1. beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. a AM come into my garden, ach. 4. 16. my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honey-bch. 4. 11. comb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, friends; drink, yea, Luke 15.7. drink abundantly, O beloved. 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. 3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed! my feet; how shall I defile them? The church's faith in Christ. Before CHRIST about 1014. + Heb. what. g ch. 1. 8. SOLOMON'S SONG. 8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love, 9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, 80 thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us? 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten a standard thousand. † Heb. bearer. 11 His head is as the most fine gold; his locks are bushy, and black as a raven: 12 h His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, Washed with milk, and fitly set: 13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh: 14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires: 15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars: 16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. beloved The graces of the church. Before CHRIST about 1014. 7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. 8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and fch. 4. 3. virgins without number. 9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of! her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. 10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and ter- ver. 4. rible as an army with banners? 11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and hto see wheth-h ch. 7. 12. er the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. 12 Or ever I was aware, my + Heb. soul made me like the chariots of Ammi-nadib. I knew not. Or, set me on the char iots of my willing people. 13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the Or, of company of two armies. Mahanaim, Gen. 32. 2. H with shoes, a prince's Ps. 45, 13. daughter! the joints of thy of the hands of a cunning workthighs are like jewels, the work man. 2 Thy navel is like a round gob WHITHER is thou fairest let, which wanteth not liquor: +Heb. f ch. 6. 11. 9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. 10 I am my beloved's, and e his desire is toward me. 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape Heb.open.appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. Gen. 30, 14. 13 The mandrakes give a h Matt. 13. 52. smell, and at our gates hare all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. ↑ Heb. they should not despise me. a Prov. 9. 2. b ch. 2. 6. ch. 2. 7. & 3.5. † Heb. why should ye stir up, or, why, &c. d ch. 3. 6. CHAPTER VIII. 1 The love of the church to Christ. 6 The vehemency of love. 8 The calling of the Gentiles. 14 The church prayeth for Christ's coming. my brother, that sucked brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised. 2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of aspiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. 3 b His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. 4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. 5 d Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning church to Christ. Before about 1014. upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there CHRIST thy mother brought thee forth; there she brought thee forth that bare thee. 6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is tcruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Is. 49. 16. Hag. 2. 23. Jer. 22. 24. Heb. hard. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: fif a man would give Prov. 6. 35. all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. 8 We have a little sister, Ez. 23. 33. and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? 9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. + Heb. peace. 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found + favour. 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; hhe let out the Matt. 21.33. vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. 12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. 13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to ich. 2. 14. hear it. 14k+ Make haste, my be-k See Rev. loved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. 22. 17, 20. ↑ Heb. Flee away. 1 ch. 2. 17. |