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Song Of Songs Chapter 5 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV SongOfSongs 5:3

I have put off my garment; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
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BBE SongOfSongs 5:3

I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean?
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DARBY SongOfSongs 5:3

-- I have put off my tunic, how should I put it on? I have washed my feet, how should I pollute them? --
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KJV SongOfSongs 5:3

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
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WBT SongOfSongs 5:3

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WEB SongOfSongs 5:3

I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
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YLT SongOfSongs 5:3

I have put off my coat, how do I put it on? I have washed my feet, how do I defile them?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? Evidently the meaning is, "I have retired to rest; do not disturb me." She is lying in bed. The cuttoneth, or χτιών, was the linen garment worn next the body - from cathan, "linen." The Arabic kutun is "cotton;" hence the French coton, "calico, or cotton" shift. Shulamith represents herself as failing in love, not meeting the condescension and affection of her lover as she should. Sloth, reluctance, ease, keep her back. "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion!" The scene is, of course, only ideally true; it is not meant to be a description of an actual occurrence. Fancy in dreams stirs up the real nature, though it also disturbs it. Shulamith has forsaken her first love. She relates it with sorrow, but not with despondency. She comes to herself again, and her repentance and restoration are the occasion for pouring out the fulness of her affection, which had never really changed, though it has been checked and restrained by self-indulgence. How true a picture both of the individual soul and of the Church in its decline! "Leave me to myself; let me lie at ease in my luxury and my smooth, conventional ways and self-flattering deceit."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Coat.--Heb. cutoneth=cetoneth; Gr. ?????, tunic.