Song of Solomon 5:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

I sleep I was dull and sluggish; but my heart waketh Yet in my very sleep my thoughts run upon my beloved. It is the voice of my beloved Between sleeping and waking, I heard his voice; that knocketh By his word, and providence, and Spirit, at the door of my heart; saying, Open to me Inviting me to let him into my soul; my sister, my love, &c. This heap of kind compellations signifies Christ's fervent affection to his people. My head is filled with dew While I wait without the door, which signifies his sufferings for the church's good. My locks with the drops of the night The dew which falls in the night.

Song of Solomon 5:2

2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.