Song of Solomon 5:11-16

11 His head is like the purest gold. His hair is wavy and as black as a raven.

12 His eyes are like doves by streams of water. They look as if they've been washed in milk. They are set like jewels in his head.

13 His cheeks are like beds of spice that give off perfume. His lips are like lilies that drip with myrrh.

14 His arms are like gold that are set with chrysolite. His body is like polished ivory that is decorated with sapphires.

15 His legs are like pillars of marble that are set on bases of pure gold. He looks like the finest cedar tree in the mountains of Lebanon.

16 His mouth is very sweet. Everything about him is delightful. That's what the one who loves me is like. That's what my friend is like, women of Jerusalem."

Song of Solomon 5:11-16 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.