Cantares 5:10-16

La amada

10 Mi amado es apuesto y trigueño,y entre diez mil hombres se le distingue.

11 Su cabeza es oro puro;su cabellera es onduladay negra como un cuervo.

12 Sus ojos parecen palomasposadas junto a los arroyos,bañadas en leche,montadas como joyas.

13 Sus mejillas son como lechos de bálsamo,como cultivos de aromáticas hierbas.Sus labios son azucenaspor las que fluye mirra.

14 Sus brazos son barras de oromontadas sobre topacios.Su cuerpo es pulido marfilincrustado de zafiros.

15 Sus piernas son pilares de mármolque descansan sobre bases de oro puro.Su porte es como el del Líbano,esbelto como sus cedros.

16 Su paladar es la dulzura misma;¡él es todo un encanto!¡Tal es mi amado, tal es mi amigo,mujeres de Jerusalén!

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.