Song of Solomon 5:7
Song of Solomon 5:7
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.
The church in the former verse gives an account of the wretched disappointment she met with, when she opened the door to her beloved, who had withdrawn himself, and was gone; at which she fell into a fainting fit, out of which, when she was a little recovered, she resolved not to stay at the door, lamenting the loss of her spouse, but to go out in search of him, which she did, but with no success; and she does in these words give an account of what she met with in the adventure; how she was taken up by the watch, and evilly treated by them. Where we have to consider,
I. Her being found by "the watchmen that went about the city, and "keepers of the walls."