Song of Solomon 5:9

Love for others

⁷ The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

⁸ I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

¹⁰ My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

¹¹ His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?
KJV: What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
WEB: How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us?
ASV: What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved, That thou dost so adjure us?
DARBY: What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved, Thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved, That thou dost so charge us?
BLB: How [is] your beloved above [any] beloved, O beautiful one among the women? How [is] your beloved above [any] beloved, that thus you adjure us?

ÅB: Hva er din elskede fremfor andre elskede, du fagreste blant kvinner, hva er din elskede fremfor andre elskede, siden du ber oss så inderlig?
OTB: Hva slags elskede er din elskede, Du vakreste blant kvinner? Hva slags elskede er din elskede, At du får oss til å besverge deg?
B1930: Hvad er din elskede fremfor andre elskede, du fagreste blandt kvinner, hvad er din elskede fremfor andre elskede, siden du ber oss så inderlig?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Song of Solomon 6:1
Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
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Song of Solomon 1:8
If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.
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Song of Solomon 6:9–10
My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
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Psalms 45:13
The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
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Isaiah 53:2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
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Matthew 16:13–17
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
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Psalms 87:3
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
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2 Corinthians 4:3–6
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
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