King James Version
What Does Song of Solomon 5:7 Mean?
“The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.”
Context
5
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. sweet: Heb. passing, or, running about
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I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love. that ye: Heb. what, etc
9
What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(7) **The watchmen.**—See Note on Song of Solomon 3:3.
**Veil.**—Heb. *redîd; *LXX. θέριστρόν*. *Probably a light summer dress for throwing over the person on going out in a hurry, like the *tsaiph *put on by Rebecca (Genesis 24:65). Only elsewhere in Isaiah 3:23.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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Theological Significance
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