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Introduction

The chapter opens with Solomon responding to the invitation given at the end of chapter four, entering the garden and enjoying its fruits, a continuation of the intimacy shared between the couple. The daughters of Jerusalem are then encouraged to eat and drink abundantly, symbolizing the joy and blessing associated with love within marriage.

The scene shifts to the woman recounting another dream or night experience. She describes being asleep, yet her heart awake, when she hears her beloved knocking at the door, calling her to open it for him. She hesitates, giving excuses about having already prepared for sleep and not wanting to soil her feet, reflecting reluctance or hesitation that leads to a missed moment of connection.

By the time she rises to open the door, her beloved has already withdrawn and is gone. She goes out to search for him but does not find him, echoing the earlier search from chapter three. This time, however, the search leads to distress. The watchmen of the city find her, and rather than helping her, they strike and wound her, possibly symbolizing the emotional pain and vulnerability associated with unresolved longing or misunderstanding in relationships.

She then charges the daughters of Jerusalem, as before, but this time to inform her beloved that she is lovesick if they find him, revealing her deep desire for reconciliation and reunion. The daughters respond by asking what makes her beloved better than others, prompting the woman to offer a detailed and admiring description of him.

She describes him using impactful words: his head as fine gold, his hair as black as a raven, his eyes like doves, his cheeks like beds of spices, his lips like lilies dropping sweet myrrh, his body compared to ivory work overlaid with sapphires, and his legs like pillars of marble. She concludes by affirming that he is altogether lovely and unmatched among ten thousand.

Chapter 5

1 See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.
2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.
3 Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.
4 Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.
5 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.
6 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
7 You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
9 You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!
10 How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!
11 Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.
12 A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.
13 The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,
14 Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
15 You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.
16 Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

Important Verses

  • Song of Solomon 5:2 “I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh.” This verse illustrates emotional readiness that can be undermined by hesitation or distraction.
  • Song of Solomon 5:6 “I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone.” This highlights the pain of missed connection due to delay.
  • Song of Solomon 5:8 “I charge you… if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.” This reflects deep longing and desire for reconciliation.
  • Song of Solomon 5:16 “This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.” This affirms both romantic love and deep friendship within the marriage relationship.

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