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Song of Solomon 5

Song of Sol. 5:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The watchmen
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
that went about
cabab (Hebrew #5437)
to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows)
KJV usage: bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Pronounce: saw-bab'
Origin: a primitive root
the city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
found
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
me, they smote
nakah (Hebrew #5221)
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
l me, they wounded
patsa` (Hebrew #6481)
to split, i.e. wound
KJV usage: wound.
Pronounce: paw-tsah'
Origin: a primitive root
m me; the keepers
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
of the walls
chowmah (Hebrew #2346)
a wall of protection
KJV usage: wall, walled.
Pronounce: kho-maw'
Origin: feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join
took away
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
my veil
radiyd (Hebrew #7289)
a veil (as expanded)
KJV usage: vail, veil.
Pronounce: raw-deed'
Origin: from 7286 in the sense of spreading
from me.
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Psa. 141:5• 5Let a righteous one smite me, [it is] a kindness;{HR}And rebuke me, a chief oil: let not my head refuse [it];{HR}For even yet my prayer [is] in their calamities . (Psa. 141:5)
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Hos. 6:5• 5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and their judgments are as the light that goeth forth. (Hos. 6:5)

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Ministry on This Verse

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watchmen.
Song of Sol. 3:3• 3The watchmen that go about the city found me:{HR}—Have ye seen him whom my soul loveth?— (Song of Sol. 3:3)
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Isa. 6:10‑11• 10Make the heart of this people fat, and make its ears heavy, and smear its eyes: lest it see with its eyes, and hear with its ears, and its heart understand, and it be converted, and be healed.
 11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted for want of an inhabitant, and the houses for want of man, and the land be utter desolation; (Isa. 6:10‑11)
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Hos. 9:7‑8• 7The days of visitation are come, the days of retribution are come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is foolish, the man of the spirit frantic, for the greatness of thy punishment and the great hatred.
 8Ephraim [was a] watchman with my God; the prophet is a fowler’s snare on all his ways—hatred in the house of his God. (Hos. 9:7‑8)
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Acts 20:29‑30• 29I know that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock;
 30and from among your own selves shall men arise speaking things perverted to draw the disciples after them. (Acts 20:29‑30)
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2 Cor. 11:13• 13For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ: (2 Cor. 11:13)
they smote.
Psa. 141:5• 5Let a righteous one smite me, [it is] a kindness;{HR}And rebuke me, a chief oil: let not my head refuse [it];{HR}For even yet my prayer [is] in their calamities . (Psa. 141:5)
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Hos. 6:5• 5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and their judgments are as the light that goeth forth. (Hos. 6:5)
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John 16:2• 2They will put you out of the synagogue; nay, an hour is coming that everyone who hath killed you will think that he is offering service to God. (John 16:2)
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Acts 26:9‑10• 9I therefore thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene;
 10which things I also did in Jerusalem; and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received the authority from the chief priests, and I railed against [them] when they were put to death; (Acts 26:9‑10)
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Phil. 3:6• 6according to zeal persecuting the church, according to righteousness that [is] in law blameless. (Phil. 3:6)
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Rev. 17:5‑6• 5and upon her forehead a name written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
 6And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder. (Rev. 17:5‑6)
the keepers.
Song of Sol. 8:11• 11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon,{HR}He let out the vineyard to keepers:{HR}Every one for its fruit was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. (Song of Sol. 8:11)
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Isa. 62:6• 6I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace all day and all night: ye that put Jehovah in remembrance, take ye no rest, (Isa. 62:6)
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Matt. 21:33‑41• 33Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
 34But when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his bondmen to the husbandmen to receive his fruits.
 35And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one and killed another and stoned another.
 36Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them likewise.
 37And afterward he sent to them his son, saying, They will feel respect for my son.
 38But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.
 39And they took and cast him forth out of the vineyard and killed [him].
 40When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to these husbandmen?
 41They say to him, He will wretchedly destroy those wretches, and let out the vineyard to other husbandmen who shall render him the fruits in their season. (Matt. 21:33‑41)
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Matt. 23:2,29‑36• 2saying, The scribes and Pharisees sat in Moses' seat:
 29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,
 30and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
 31So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:
 32and ye, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.
 33Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?
 34Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;
 35so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
 36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. (Matt. 23:2,29‑36)
took.
Luke 6:22• 22Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from them], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake. (Luke 6:22)
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Acts 5:40‑41• 40And to him they yielded, and having called the apostles, they beat and charged [them] not to speak on the name of Jesus, and let them go.
 41They therefore went their way from [the] presence of the council rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to be dishonoured for the Name. (Acts 5:40‑41)
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1 Cor. 4:10‑13• 10we, fools for Christ, but ye prudent in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye illustrious, but we disgraced.
 11Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted and are homeless wanderers,
 12and we toil, working with our own hands; reviled, we bless, persecuted, we suffer;
 13slandered, we beseech. We became as the world's scum, off-scouring of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:10‑13)
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Heb. 11:36‑37• 36and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea and of bonds and imprisonment.
 37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they died by slaughter of sword. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated (Heb. 11:36‑37)
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Heb. 12:2• 2looking off unto Jesus the leader and completer of faith; who for the joy set before him endured cross, despising shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb. 12:2)
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1 Peter 4:14‑16• 14If ye are reproached in Christ's name, blessed [are ye], because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you: [on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified].
 15For let none of you suffer as murderer or thief or evil-doer, or as spy on another's matter;
 16but if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed but glorify God in this name. (1 Peter 4:14‑16)
• She is chastised by those who watch for the peace of Jerusalem. What had she to do in the streets at night, she whom the Bridegroom had sought at home? And now her very affection exposes her to reproof, the expression of its energy placing her in a position that proved she had slighted her Beloved. If we are not in the peaceful enjoyment of the love of Christ, where He meets with us in grace, the very strength of our affection and our self-condemnation causes us to exhibit this affection out of its place, in a certain sense, and bring us into connection with those who judge our position. (“Song of Solomon 5” by J.N. Darby)
• Testimonies of her affection to her Beloved at home, the love of her own heart, do not concern the watchman. Affection may exist; but he has to do with order and a becoming walk. (“Song of Solomon 5” by J.N. Darby)
• The business of the watchmen is to keep order in the city. How comes it that they find the bride wandering in the city at night, without the Bridegroom? This is contrary to order and they rightly rebuke her. They "wounded" her, but "faithful are the wounds of a friend" (Prov. 27:6). (“Canticle 4: The Restoration of Love” by H. Smith)
• They must discover if she is really what she professes to be, and therefore they strip her of her veil. (“Canticle 4: The Restoration of Love” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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.

W. Kelly Translation

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