Cantares 5:10-16

10 Mi amado es resplandeciente y rubio, distinguido entre diez mil.

11 Su cabeza es como oro, oro puro, sus cabellos, como racimos de dátiles, negros como el cuervo.

12 Sus ojos son como palomas junto a corrientes de agua, bañados en leche, colocados en su engaste.

13 Sus mejillas, como eras de bálsamo, como riberas de hierbas aromáticas; sus labios son lirios que destilan mirra líquida.

14 Sus manos, barras de oro engastadas de berilo; su vientre, marfil tallado recubierto de zafiros.

15 Sus piernas, columnas de alabastro asentadas sobre basas de oro puro; su aspecto, como el Líbano, gallardo como los cedros.

16 Su paladar, dulcísimo, y todo él, deseable. Este es mi amado y éste es mi amigo, hijas de Jerusalén. EL CORO:

Cantares 5:10-16 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.

Footnotes

• [a] Lit., escogido