Song of Solomon 5:7

Song of Solomon chapter 5 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.

Context

v.6I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

v.7This passage

v.8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Peter 4:14

    If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; because the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you.

  • Hebrews 11:36

    and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

  • Matthew 23:29

    Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,

  • Hosea 6:5

    Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

  • Revelation 17:5

    and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

  • Isaiah 62:6

    I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah’s remembrancers, take ye no rest,