I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
The Church had twice before in this Song given a charge to the daughters of Jerusalem. Song of Solomon 2:7. and Song of Solomon 3:5. But here she adds a more earnest request. Tell my Lord, saith she, that I am sick of love: which is, as if she had said, oh let my Lord know how truly sorry I am for my late ungrateful conduct. Tell him I cannot rest until I know that I have his pardoning mercy and his renewing grace. Oh! tell my Lord, if he will but come unto me and draw my soul out after him, that my soul will revive as the spring. But while Jesus is absent I can find neither peace within, nor comfort without. Reader! do you know anything of these soul-searching, soul-distressing feelings? Here is nothing of the cold lifeless form of prayer. This differs widely from that lukewarm frame of spirit; which the Laodicean Church had, and which the Redeemer declared himself so much displeased with, that he rejected it with abhorrence. Revelation 3:15-16.