Cantares de Salomâo 5:3-8

A Amada

3 Já tirei a túnica;terei que vestir-me de novo?Já lavei os pés;terei que sujá-los de novo?

4 O meu amado pôs a mão por uma abertura da tranca;meu coração começou a palpitar por causa dele.

5 Levantei-me para abrir-lhe a porta;minhas mãos destilavam mirra,meus dedos vertiam mirra,na maçaneta da tranca.

6 Eu abri, mas o meu amado se fora;o meu amado já havia partido.Quase desmaiei de tristeza!Procurei-o, mas não o encontrei.Eu o chamei, mas ele não respondeu.

7 As sentinelas me encontraramenquanto faziam a ronda na cidade.Bateram-me, feriram-me;e tomaram o meu manto,as sentinelas dos muros!

8 Ó mulheres de Jerusalém, eu as faço jurar:se encontrarem o meu amado,que dirão a ele?Digam-lhe que estou doente de amor.

Cantares de Salomâo 5:3-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 5

This chapter begins with Christ's answer to the church's request; in which he informs her, that he was come into his garden, as she desired, and gives an account of what he had done there; and kindly invites his dear friends to feast with him there, So 5:1; Then she relates her case and circumstances, which followed upon this, her sleepy frame, and ungrateful carriage to her beloved; which he resenting, withdrew from her, and this gave her sensible pain, So 5:2-6; what treatment she met with from the watchmen; her charge to the daughters of Jerusalem; and the questions they asked about her beloved, So 5:7-9; which put her upon giving a large description of him, by each of his parts, head, hair So 5:10-15; And the chapter is concluded with a general commendation of him and his loveliness, and a claim of interest in So 5:16.