I charge you, [a]O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my well-beloved, that you tell him that I am sick of love.

[b]O the fairest among women, what is thy well-beloved more than other well-beloved? what is thy well-beloved more than another lover, that thou dost so charge us?

10 My well-beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest of ten thousand.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 5:8 She asketh of them which are godly (forasmuch as the law and salvation should come out of Zion and Jerusalem) that they would direct her to Christ.
  2. Song of Solomon 5:9 Thus say they of Jerusalem.

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