Song of Songs 5:10-16

In praise of him

10 [Woman]My lover is radiant and ruddy; he stands out among ten thousand!

11 His head is finest gold; his wavy hair, black as a raven.

12 His eyes are like doves by channels of water. They are bathing in milk, sitting by brimming pools.

13 His cheeks are like fragrant plantings, towers of spices. His lips are lilies dripping liquid myrrh.

14 His arms are gold cylinders studded with jewels. His belly is smooth ivory encrusted with sapphires.

15 His thighs are pillars of whitest stone set on pedestals of gold. His appearance—like Lebanon, stately, like the cedars.

16 His mouth is everything sweet, every bit of him desirable. This is my love, this my dearest, daughters of Jerusalem!

Song of Songs 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.