Song of Songs 5:8
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you,
What it says
She charges the daughters of Jerusalem to tell the beloved she is sick with love.
What it is doing
This verse closes the search scene with wounded devotion.
In context
2I sleep, but my heart is awake. 3I have taken off my robe — 4My beloved put his hand to the latch; 5I rose up to open for my beloved. 6I opened for my beloved, 7I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. 8O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you,