I LOOKED FOR HIM AND CALLED HIM

Song of Songs 5:2-6:3 / Keywords 6:3

I am my lover's and my lover is mine; he browses among the lilies.

 

She

5:2 I slept but my heart was awake.

    Listen! My beloved is knocking:

“Open to me, my sister, my darling,

    my dove, my flawless one.

My head is drenched with dew,

    my hair with the dampness of the night.”

3 I have taken off my robe—

    must I put it on again?

I have washed my feet—

    must I soil them again?

4 My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening;

    my heart began to pound for him.

5 I arose to open for my beloved,

    and my hands dripped with myrrh,

my fingers with flowing myrrh,

    on the handles of the bolt.

6 I opened for my beloved,

    but my beloved had left; he was gone.

    My heart sank at his departure.[a]

I looked for him but did not find him.

    I called him but he did not answer.

7 The watchmen found me

    as they made their rounds in the city.

They beat me, they bruised me;

    they took away my cloak,

    those watchmen of the walls!

8 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you—

    if you find my beloved,

what will you tell him?

    Tell him I am faint with love.

Friends

9 How is your beloved better than others,

    most beautiful of women?

How is your beloved better than others,

    that you so charge us?

She

10 My beloved is radiant and ruddy,

    outstanding among ten thousand.

11 His head is purest gold;

    his hair is wavy

    and black as a raven.

12 His eyes are like doves

    by the water streams,

washed in milk,

    mounted like jewels.

13 His cheeks are like beds of spice

    yielding perfume.

His lips are like lilies

    dripping with myrrh.

14 His arms are rods of gold

    set with topaz.

His body is like polished ivory

    decorated with lapis lazuli.

15 His legs are pillars of marble

    set on bases of pure gold.

His appearance is like Lebanon,

    choice as its cedars.

16 His mouth is sweetness itself;

    he is altogether lovely.

This is my beloved, this is my friend,

    daughters of Jerusalem.

Friends

6:1 Where has your beloved gone,

    most beautiful of women?

Which way did your beloved turn,

    that we may look for him with you?

She

2 My beloved has gone down to his garden,

    to the beds of spices,

to browse in the gardens

    and to gather lilies.

3 I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;

    he browses among the lilies.

Footnotes

a. Song of Songs 5:6 Or heart had gone out to him when he spoke

1. The Shulamite woman recalls a time (or her dream) when she had lost the king. The king comes back late at night drenched wet. He knocks on her door, but she hesitates to get out of her warm bed to greet him. Her attitude has considerably changed from that of chapter 2. She has lost her first love and prefers a little physical comfort over her beloved king.

 

2. When she comes back to her senses and goes to open the door, she realizes the king is gone, and her heart sinks. She goes out to look for him and is treated like a street woman (5:7). As she is desperately looking for the king, she remembers his great qualities (5:10-16).

 

3. Then she realizes that the king is not gone, but in the garden (4:16). He is waiting for her in their personal sacred garden. This story is a metaphor for our relationship with the Lord. Sometimes our hearts may turn lukewarm, losing our first love for the Lord (Rev 2:4). We may get lost in the burdens of reality, and we may neglect our relationship with the Lord. But you don’t need to search far when your heart becomes weary and desperate. When you remember your love for the Lord, he is already there waiting for you.

 

Prayer Father, thank you for always being faithful. Help me never to lose you but always make you as the priority of my life.

One Word Remain in his love