Song of Solomon 5:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

Song of Solomon 5:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 11:7
And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Matthew 26:38-43
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. …
Proverbs 22:13
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Romans 7:22-23
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: …
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Topics

Ablution Bathing Cleanliness Cleansing Defilement Feet Purification Washing

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 2-8)

In this song of loves and joys we have here a very melancholy scene; the spouse here speaks, not to her beloved (as before, for he has withdrawn), but of him, and it is a sad story she tells of her own folly and ill conduct towards him, notwithstanding his kindness, and of the just rebukes she fell under for it. Perhaps it may refer to Solomon’s own apostasy from God, and the sad effects of that a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. Trivial excuses (Lu 14:18). coat--rather, the inmost vest, next the skin, taken off before going to bed. washed ... feet--before going to rest, for they had been soiled, from the Eastern custom of wearing sandals, not shoes. Sloth (Lu 11:7) and despondency (De 7:17-19).