I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
Daughters of Jerusalem. She turns from the unsympathizing watchmen to humbler persons, not yet themselves knowing Him, but in the way toward it. The proud scribes answer to the harsh "watchmen;" the despised disciples of the lower and meaner chum answer to "the daughters of Jerusalem," So historically; His secret friends in the night of His withdrawal (Luke 23:27-28). Enquirers may find ("if ye find") Jesus Christ before she who has grieved His Spirit finds Him again.
Tell - in intercessory prayer (James 5:16).
Sick of love - from an opposite cause (Song of Solomon 2:5) to that of excess of delight at His presence; now excess of pain at His absence.