I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.
Ver. 8. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem.] Being evil entreated by her enemies, she turns her to her friends, those damsels or daughters of Jerusalem. See Song of Solomon 2:7; Song of Solomon 3:5. So the Lord Christ, being tired out with the untractableness of his untoward hearers, turns him to his Father. Mat 11:25-26 Kings, as they have their cares and cumbers above other men, so they had of old their friends, by a specialty, as Hushai was David's friend, 2Sa 15:37 to whom they might ease themselves, and "take sweet counsel." Psa 55:14 The servants of God are "princes in all lands"; Psa 45:16 and as they have their crosses not a few, so their comforts, in and by the communion of saints. The very opening of their grievances one to another doth many times ease them, as the very opening of a vein cools the blood. Their mutual prayers one with and for another prevail much, if they be fervent, or thorough well wrought, a as in this case they likely will be; for as "iron whets iron, so doth the face of a man his friend." Pro 27:17 And as ferrum potest quod aurum non potest, iron can do what sometimes gold cannot do - an iron key may open a chest wherein gold is laid up - so a meaner man's prayer may be more effectual sometimes than a better man's for himself. His own key may be rusty, or out of order, and another man's do it better. Hence the Church is so importunate with the daughters of Jerusalem - who were far behind her in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, as appears by that which follows - to commend her and her misery to Christ, to tell him, wherever they meet with him, "Behold, she whom thou lovest is sick," thy Church - in whom thy love is concentrated, as it were, and gathered to a head - doth even languish with love, and is in ill case. "Tell him," saith she. "What shall ye tell him?" as the Hebrew hath it. An earnest and passionate kind of speech, somewhat like that in Hosea, "Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them?" Hos 9:14 as if she should say, Would you know what you should tell him even that which followeth, that "I am sick of love." See Song of Solomon 2:5 .
a ενεργουμενη. Jam 5:16