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Selected Verse: Song of solomon 5:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| So 5:7 |
Strong Concordance |
The watchmen [08104] that went about [05437] the city [05892] found [04672] me, they smote [05221] me, they wounded [06481] me; the keepers [08104] of the walls [02346] took away [05375] my veil [07289] from me. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| watchmen--historically, the Jewish priests, &c. (see on Sol 5:2); spiritually, ministers (Isa 62:6; Heb 13:17), faithful in "smiting" (Psalm 141. 5), but (as she leaves them, v. 8) too harsh; or, perhaps, unfaithful; disliking her zeal wherewith she sought Jesus Christ, first, with spiritual prayer, "opening" her heart to Him, and then in charitable works "about the city"; miscalling it fanaticism (Isa 66:5), and taking away her veil (the greatest indignity to an Eastern lady), as though she were positively immodest. She had before sought Him by night in the streets, under strong affection (Sol 3:2-4), and so without rebuff from "the watchmen," found Him immediately; but now after sinful neglect, she encounters pain and delay. God forgives believers, but it is a serious thing to draw on His forgiveness; so the growing reserve of God towards Israel observable in Judges, as His people repeat their demands on His grace. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
7 The watchmen who go about in the city found me,
They beat me, wounded me;
My upper garment took away from me,
The watchmen of the walls.
She sought her beloved, not "in the midbar" (open field), nor "in the kepharim" (villages), but בעיר, "in the city," - a circumstance which is fatal to the shepherd-hypothesis here, as in the other dream. There in the city she is found by the watchmen who patrol the city, and have their proper posts on the walls to watch those who approach the city and depart from it (cf. Isa 62:6). These rough, regardless men, - her story returns at the close like a palindrome to those previously named, - who judge only according to that which is external, and have neither an eye nor a heart for the sorrow of a loving soul, struck (הכה, from נכה, to pierce, hit, strike) and wounded (פּצע, R. פץ, to divide, to inflict wounds in the flesh) the royal spouse as a common woman, and so treated her, that, in order to escape being made a prisoner, she was constrained to leave her upper robe in their hands (Gen 39:12). This upper robe, not the veil which at Sol 4:1, Sol 4:3 we found was called tsammā, is called רדיד. Aben Ezra compares with it the Arab. ridâ, a plaid-like over-garment, which was thrown over the shoulders and veiled the upper parts of the body. But the words have not the same derivation. The ridâ has its name from its reaching downward, - probably from the circumstance that, originally, it hung down to the feet, so that one could tread on it; but the (Heb.) redid (in Syr. the dalmatica of the deacons), from רדד, Hiph., Kg1 6:32, Targ., Talm., Syr., רדד, to make broad and thin, as expansum, i.e., a thin and light upper robe, viz., over the cuttoněth, 3a. The lxx suitably translates it here and at Gen 24:65 (hatstsaiph, from tsa'aph, to lay together, to fold, to make double or many-fold) by θέριστρον, a summer overdress. A modern painter, who represents Shulamith as stripped naked by the watchmen, follows his own sensual taste, without being able to distinguish between tunica and pallium; for neither Luther, who renders by schleier (veil), nor Jerome, who has pallium (cf. the saying of Plautus: tunica propior pallio est), gives any countenance to such a freak of imagination. The city watchmen tore from off her the upper garment, without knowing and without caring to know what might be the motive and the aim of this her nocturnal walk. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Watch - men - The governors of the church, who, though by their place they are obliged to comfort the faithful, do frequently discourage them. Smote - With bitter calumnies and persecutions. The keepers - The same with the watchmen, whose office it is to keep the gates and walls of the city. My vine - Which was an ornament of her sex, and an ensign of her relation to Christ. And so the taking of this veil away, signifies their contemptuous usage of her, and endeavours to represent her, as one that had no relation to Christ. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Took away my veil - They tore it off rudely, to discover who she was. See on Sol 5:2 (note). To tear the veil signifies, in Eastern phrase, to deflower or dishonor a woman. |
2 I will rise [06965] now, and go about [05437] the city [05892] in the streets [07784], and in the broad ways [07339] I will seek [01245] him whom my soul [05315] loveth [0157]: I sought [01245] him, but I found [04672] him not.
3 The watchmen [08104] that go about [05437] the city [05892] found [04672] me: to whom I said, Saw [07200] ye him whom my soul [05315] loveth [0157]?
4 It was but a little [04592] that I passed [05674] from them, but I found [04672] him whom my soul [05315] loveth [0157]: I held [0270] him, and would not let him go [07503], until I had brought [0935] him into my mother's [0517] house [01004], and into the chamber [02315] of her that conceived [02029] me.
5 Hear [08085] the word [01697] of the LORD [03068], ye that tremble [02730] at his word [01697]; Your brethren [0251] that hated [08130] you, that cast you out [05077] for my name's [08034] sake, said [0559], Let the LORD [03068] be glorified [03513]: but he shall appear [07200] to your joy [08057], and they shall be ashamed [0954].
17 Obey [3982] them that have the rule [2233] over you [5216], and [2532] submit yourselves [5226]: for [1063] they [846] watch [69] for [5228] your [5216] souls [5590], as [5613] they that must give [591] account [3056], that [2443] they may do [4160] it [5124] with [3326] joy [5479], and [2532] not [3361] with grief [4727]: for [1063] that [5124] is unprofitable [255] for you [5213].
6 I have set [06485] watchmen [08104] upon thy walls [02346], O Jerusalem [03389], which shall never [08548] hold their peace [02814] day [03117] nor night [03915]: ye that make mention [02142] of the LORD [03068], keep not silence [01824],
2 I sleep [03463], but my heart [03820] waketh [05782]: it is the voice [06963] of my beloved [01730] that knocketh [01849], saying, Open [06605] to me, my sister [0269], my love [07474], my dove [03123], my undefiled [08535]: for my head [07218] is filled [04390] with dew [02919], and my locks [06977] with the drops [07447] of the night [03915].
65 For she had said [0559] unto the servant [05650], What [04310] man [0376] is this [01976] that walketh [01980] in the field [07704] to meet us [07125]? And the servant [05650] had said [0559], It is my master [0113]: therefore she took [03947] a vail [06809], and covered herself [03680].
32 The two [08147] doors [01817] also were of olive [08081] tree [06086]; and he carved [07049] upon them carvings [04734] of cherubims [03742] and palm trees [08561] and open [06362] flowers [06731], and overlaid [06823] them with gold [02091], and spread [07286] gold [02091] upon the cherubims [03742], and upon the palm trees [08561].
3 Thy lips [08193] are like a thread [02339] of scarlet [08144], and thy speech [04057] is comely [05000]: thy temples [07541] are like a piece [06400] of a pomegranate [07416] within [01157] thy locks [06777].
1 Behold, thou art fair [03303], my love [07474]; behold, thou art fair [03303]; thou hast doves [03123]' eyes [05869] within [01157] thy locks [06777]: thy hair [08181] is as a flock [05739] of goats [05795], that appear [01570] from mount [02022] Gilead [01568].
12 And she caught [08610] him by his garment [0899], saying [0559], Lie [07901] with me: and he left [05800] his garment [0899] in her hand [03027], and fled [05127], and got [03318] him out [02351].
6 I have set [06485] watchmen [08104] upon thy walls [02346], O Jerusalem [03389], which shall never [08548] hold their peace [02814] day [03117] nor night [03915]: ye that make mention [02142] of the LORD [03068], keep not silence [01824],
2 I sleep [03463], but my heart [03820] waketh [05782]: it is the voice [06963] of my beloved [01730] that knocketh [01849], saying, Open [06605] to me, my sister [0269], my love [07474], my dove [03123], my undefiled [08535]: for my head [07218] is filled [04390] with dew [02919], and my locks [06977] with the drops [07447] of the night [03915].