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Song of Solomon 5:8 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
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Tell him I am faint with love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/songs/5.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Make this promise, O women of Jerusalem— If you find my lover, tell him I am weak with love. Young Women of Jerusalem<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/songs/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/songs/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/songs/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I <i>am</i> sick of love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/songs/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him I <i>am</i> lovesick!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/songs/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Swear to me, you daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, As to what you will tell him: For I am lovesick.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/songs/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />“I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, As to what you will tell him: For I am lovesick.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/songs/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, As to what you will tell him: For I am lovesick.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/songs/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />I call you to <i>solemnly</i> swear, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, What will you tell him? <i>Tell him</i> that I am sick with love.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/songs/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“I command that you take an oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, As to what you tell him— [Say that] I am sick from love [sick from being without him].”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/songs/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you, if you find my love, tell him that I am lovesick. Young Women<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/songs/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you: if you find my love, tell him that I am lovesick. Y<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/songs/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/songs/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Young women of Jerusalem, if you find the one I love, please say to him, "She is weak with desire." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/songs/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/songs/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Young women of Jerusalem, swear to me that if you find my beloved you will tell him I am hopelessly lovesick.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/songs/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Promise me, women of Jerusalem, that if you find my lover, you will tell him I am weak from passion. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/songs/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />I charge you, young women of Jerusalem, "If you find my beloved, what are you to tell him? Tell him that I'm weak with love."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/songs/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/songs/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />O maidens of Jerusalem, I command you--If you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him that I am lovesick! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/songs/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/songs/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick with love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/songs/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/songs/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, "" If you find my beloved—What do you tell him? That I [am] sick with love!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/songs/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved -- What do ye tell him? that I am sick with love!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/songs/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye shall find my beloved, what ye shall announce to him: I am pierced by love.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/songs/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/songs/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><font color=#0000CC>I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, announce to him that I languish through love.</font><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/songs/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I adjure you, Daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my lover What shall you tell him? that I am sick with love. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/songs/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, tell him this: I am faint with love.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/songs/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you should find my beloved, tell him that I am sick for love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/songs/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />I charge you daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, tell him that I am sick with love<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/songs/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, what will ye tell him? That I am love-sick.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/songs/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? That I am wounded with love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/songs/5-8.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9D_QEk8ZdxU?start=716" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/songs/5.htm">The Bride and Her Beloved</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: bə·nō·wṯ (N-fpc) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">O daughters</a> <a href="/hebrew/3389.htm" title="3389: yə·rū·šā·lim (N-proper-fs) -- Probably foundation of peace, capital city of all Isr. ">of Jerusalem,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7650.htm" title="7650: hiš·ba‘·tî (V-Hifil-Perf-1cs) -- A primitive root; propr. To be complete, but used only as a denominative from sheba'; to seven oneself, i.e. Swear.">I adjure</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ·ḵem (DirObjM:: 2mp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">you,</a> <a href="/hebrew/518.htm" title="518: ’im- (Conj) -- If. A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!">if</a> <a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: tim·ṣə·’ū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To attain to, find. ">you find</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1730.htm" title="1730: dō·w·ḏî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- Or dod; from an unused root meaning properly, to boil, i.e. to love; by implication, a love- token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle.">my beloved,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4100.htm" title="4100: mah- (Interrog) -- What? how? anything. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/5046.htm" title="5046: tag·gî·ḏū (V-Hifil-Imperf-2mp) -- To be conspicuous. ">tell</a> <a href="/hebrew/lōw (Prep:: 3ms) -- ">him</a> <a href="/hebrew/589.htm" title="589: ’ā·nî (Pro-1cs) -- I. Contracted from 'anokiy; I.">I</a> <a href="/hebrew/2470.htm" title="2470: še·ḥō·w·laṯ (Pro-r:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-fsc) -- A primitive root; properly, to be rubbed or worn; hence to be weak, sick, afflicted; or to grieve, make sick; also to stroke, entreat.">am sick</a> <a href="/hebrew/160.htm" title="160: ’a·hă·ḇāh (N-fs) -- Love (noun). Feminine of 'ahab and meaning the same.">with love.</a> </span><span class="reftext">9</span>How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/63-1.htm">Psalm 63:1</a></span><br />A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/26-9.htm">Isaiah 26:9</a></span><br />My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/5-6.htm">Matthew 5:6</a></span><br />Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/7-37.htm">John 7:37</a></span><br />On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/42-1.htm">Psalm 42:1-2</a></span><br />For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. / My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/55-1.htm">Isaiah 55:1</a></span><br />“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/22-17.htm">Revelation 22:17</a></span><br />The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/84-2.htm">Psalm 84:2</a></span><br />My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/11-28.htm">Matthew 11:28</a></span><br />Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/4-13.htm">John 4:13-14</a></span><br />Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. / But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/143-6.htm">Psalm 143:6</a></span><br />I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/41-17.htm">Isaiah 41:17</a></span><br />The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/philippians/3-10.htm">Philippians 3:10</a></span><br />I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/27-4.htm">Psalm 27:4</a></span><br />One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/29-13.htm">Jeremiah 29:13</a></span><br />You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him, that I am sick of love.</p><p class="hdg">charge</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/2-7.htm">Song of Solomon 2:7</a></b></br> I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake <i>my</i> love, till he please.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/8-4.htm">Song of Solomon 8:4</a></b></br> I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake <i>my</i> love, until he please.</p><p class="hdg">if ye</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/15-30.htm">Romans 15:30</a></b></br> Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in <i>your</i> prayers to God for me;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/galatians/6-1.htm">Galatians 6:1,2</a></b></br> Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/james/5-16.htm">James 5:16</a></b></br> Confess <i>your</i> faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.</p><p class="hdg">that ye</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/42-1.htm">Psalm 42:1-3</a></b></br> To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/63-1.htm">Psalm 63:1-3</a></b></br> A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou <i>art</i> my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/77-1.htm">Psalm 77:1-3</a></b></br> To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried unto God with my voice, <i>even</i> unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/songs/3-5.htm">Adjure</a> <a href="/songs/3-5.htm">Adjured</a> <a href="/songs/5-6.htm">Beloved</a> <a href="/songs/3-5.htm">Charge</a> <a href="/songs/3-11.htm">Daughters</a> <a href="/songs/2-5.htm">Faint</a> <a href="/songs/5-6.htm">Find</a> <a href="/songs/5-1.htm">Friends</a> <a href="/songs/3-11.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/songs/5-2.htm">Love</a> <a href="/songs/4-16.htm">Lover</a> <a href="/songs/2-5.htm">Overcome</a> <a href="/songs/2-5.htm">Sick</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/songs/5-9.htm">Adjure</a> <a href="/songs/5-9.htm">Adjured</a> <a href="/songs/5-9.htm">Beloved</a> <a href="/songs/5-9.htm">Charge</a> <a href="/songs/5-16.htm">Daughters</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-5.htm">Faint</a> <a href="/songs/8-1.htm">Find</a> <a href="/songs/5-16.htm">Friends</a> <a href="/songs/5-16.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/songs/6-4.htm">Love</a> <a href="/songs/5-10.htm">Lover</a> <a href="/songs/6-5.htm">Overcome</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-5.htm">Sick</a><div class="vheading2">Song of Solomon 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/songs/5-1.htm">Christ awakes the church with his calling</a></span><br><span class="reftext">2. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/songs/5-2.htm">The church having a taste of Christ's love is sick of love</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/songs/5-9.htm">A description of Christ by his graces</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br /> <!-- /1078254/BH-728x90-ATF --> <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br /> <!-- /1078254/BH-300x250-ATF --> <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br /> <!-- /1078254/BH-728x90-BTF --> <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br /> <!-- /1078254/BH-300x250-BTF --> <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br /> <!-- /1078254/BH-728x90-BTF2 --> <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/songs/5.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/songs/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/songs/5.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>O daughters of Jerusalem</b><br>The "daughters of Jerusalem" are often interpreted as the women of the city, possibly representing the collective people of Israel or the church. In the context of the Song of Solomon, they serve as a chorus or audience to the dialogue between the lovers. This phrase suggests a communal aspect to the love story, indicating that love is not only personal but also has a public dimension. The city of Jerusalem, being the center of Jewish worship and culture, adds a layer of spiritual significance, symbolizing the heart of God's people.<p><b>I adjure you</b><br>To "adjure" means to earnestly request or command under oath. This strong language indicates the urgency and intensity of the speaker's desire. It reflects a deep emotional plea, emphasizing the seriousness of the request. In biblical times, oaths and adjurations were binding and carried significant weight, often invoking God's name as a witness to the promise or request.<p><b>if you find my beloved</b><br>The search for the "beloved" is a central theme in the Song of Solomon, symbolizing the longing and pursuit inherent in true love. This phrase can be seen as a metaphor for the soul's search for God or Christ, reflecting the deep yearning for spiritual communion. The beloved is often interpreted as a type of Christ, representing the intimate relationship between Christ and the church or the individual believer.<p><b>tell him I am sick with love</b><br>The expression "sick with love" conveys an overwhelming, consuming passion. It suggests a love so intense that it affects the physical and emotional state of the speaker. This phrase can be connected to the idea of divine love, where the soul longs for union with God. In a broader biblical context, it echoes the deep desire for God's presence found in the Psalms and other scriptures, such as <a href="/psalms/42.htm">Psalm 42:1</a>, "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God." The intensity of this love can also be seen as a reflection of Christ's love for the church, as described in <a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm">Ephesians 5:25-27</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/d/daughters_of_jerusalem.htm">Daughters of Jerusalem</a></b><br>These are likely the women of the city, serving as a chorus or audience within the Song of Solomon. They represent the community or society that observes and sometimes participates in the unfolding love account.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_beloved.htm">The Beloved</a></b><br>This refers to the male lover in the Song of Solomon, often interpreted as Solomon himself or a representation of an idealized lover. In a spiritual allegory, he can symbolize Christ.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_shulammite_woman.htm">The Shulammite Woman</a></b><br>The speaker in this verse, expressing her deep longing and love for her beloved. She is often seen as a representation of the bride or the church in allegorical interpretations.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>The city serves as a backdrop for the events and is symbolic of a place of spiritual significance, often representing the center of worship and community in biblical literature.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/l/lovesickness.htm">Lovesickness</a></b><br>This term describes the intense longing and desire the Shulammite feels for her beloved, illustrating the depth of her emotional and spiritual connection.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_nature_of_true_love.htm">The Nature of True Love</a></b><br>True love involves deep longing and desire, as seen in the Shulammite's expression of being "lovesick." This reflects the passionate pursuit of a relationship, whether human or divine.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_in_love.htm">Community in Love</a></b><br>The involvement of the "daughters of Jerusalem" highlights the role of community in supporting and witnessing love. In our spiritual journey, community plays a vital role in encouraging and guiding us.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_longing.htm">Spiritual Longing</a></b><br>The lovesickness of the Shulammite can be seen as a metaphor for spiritual longing. Believers are encouraged to cultivate a deep desire for Christ, seeking Him with all their heart.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/communication_in_relationships.htm">Communication in Relationships</a></b><br>The Shulammite's request to the daughters of Jerusalem to communicate her feelings to her beloved underscores the importance of communication in relationships. Open and honest expression is key to nurturing love.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/a/allegorical_interpretation.htm">Allegorical Interpretation</a></b><br>In a spiritual sense, the beloved can represent Christ, and the Shulammite the church. This verse can be seen as an allegory for the church's longing for Christ's presence and love.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_song_of_solomon_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Song of Solomon 5</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/where_is_mount_ephraim_in_the_bible.htm">What does 'Do not awaken love until it pleases' mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/do_findings_support_song_of_solomon_8_2-4.htm">Are there any archaeological findings that corroborate the cultural practices alluded to in Song of Solomon 8:2-4, or are these references purely poetic?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_song_8_5_align_with_patriarchy.htm">How does Song of Solomon 8:5, which suggests a strong marital bond, align with biblical texts that portray marriage in more patriarchal terms?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_are_the_bible's_songs_of_ascent.htm">What are the Songs of Ascent in the Bible?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/songs/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 8.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.</span> This appeal to the ladies suggests that the bride is speaking from her place in the royal palace; but it may be taken otherwise, as a poetical transference of time and place, from the place where the dream actually occurred, to Jerusalem. It is difficult, in a poem of such a kind, to explain every turn of language objectively. We cannot, however, be far wrong if we say the bride is rejoicing, in the presence of her attendant ladies, in the love of Solomon. He has just left her, and she takes the opportunity of relating the dream, that she may say how she cannot bear his absence and how she adores him. The ladies enter at once into the pleasant scheme of her fancy, and assume that they are with her in the country place, and ready to help her to find her shepherd lover, who has turned away from her when she did not at once respond to his call. The daughters of Jerusalem will, of course, symbolically represent those who, by their sympathy and by their similar relation to the object of our love, are ready to help us to rejoice - our fellow believers. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/songs/5-8.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">O daughters</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּנ֣וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(bə·nō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> </span><span class="str2">A daughter</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(yə·rū·šā·lim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3389.htm">Strong's 3389: </a> </span><span class="str2">Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I adjure</span><br /><span class="heb">הִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי</span> <span class="translit">(hiš·ba‘·tî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7650.htm">Strong's 7650: </a> </span><span class="str2">To seven oneself, swear</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶתְכֶ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(’eṯ·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Direct object marker | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_853.htm">Strong's 853: </a> </span><span class="str2">Untranslatable mark of the accusative case</span><br /><br /><span class="word">if</span><br /><span class="heb">אִֽם־</span> <span class="translit">(’im-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_518.htm">Strong's 518: </a> </span><span class="str2">Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you find</span><br /><span class="heb">תִּמְצְאוּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(tim·ṣə·’ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4672.htm">Strong's 4672: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present</span><br /><br /><span class="word">my beloved,</span><br /><span class="heb">דּוֹדִ֔י</span> <span class="translit">(dō·w·ḏî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1730.htm">Strong's 1730: </a> </span><span class="str2">To love, a love-token, lover, friend, an uncle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">tell him</span><br /><span class="heb">תַּגִּ֣ידוּ</span> <span class="translit">(tag·gî·ḏū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5046.htm">Strong's 5046: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be conspicuous</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I</span><br /><span class="heb">אָֽנִי׃</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·nî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_589.htm">Strong's 589: </a> </span><span class="str2">I</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[am] sick</span><br /><span class="heb">שֶׁחוֹלַ֥ת</span> <span class="translit">(še·ḥō·w·laṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - relative | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2470.htm">Strong's 2470: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be weak or sick</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with love.</span><br /><span class="heb">אַהֲבָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(’a·hă·ḇāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_160.htm">Strong's 160: </a> </span><span class="str2">Love (noun)</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/songs/5-8.htm">Song of Solomon 5:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/songs/5-8.htm">Song of Solomon 5:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/songs/5-8.htm">Song of Solomon 5:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/songs/5-8.htm">Song of Solomon 5:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/songs/5-8.htm">Song of Solomon 5:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/songs/5-8.htm">Song of Solomon 5:8 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/songs/5-8.htm">Song of Solomon 5:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/songs/5-8.htm">Song of Solomon 5:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/songs/5-8.htm">Song of Solomon 5:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/songs/5-8.htm">Song of Solomon 5:8 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/songs/5-8.htm">OT Poetry: Song of Solomon 5:8 I adjure you daughters of Jerusalem If (Song Songs SS So Can)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/songs/5-7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 5:7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 5:7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/songs/5-9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Song of Solomon 5:9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 5:9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>