"I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love."
This is not the same ending that we find in chapter 3. In chapter 3, she found her beloved and swore that she would never let Him go. But here we are now, and she has lost Him again. Wounded, assualted, seeking but not finding for her Beloved. And with desperation she gives a message of love to be shared by anyone that may find Him.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem - the charge of love is given to the other women that her beloved may go too; If he would come to them because she had delayed in coming to him, she says, 'Give Him this message.' We know that Solomon had many wives and concubines. What better way to get a message to him than to convey it to where you knew he would be. Her audience to convey is the possible other women that he may come into.
'The daughters of Jerusaleum' are the symbol for the other saints that are tied into Christ and their relationship with Him. We are betrohed to Him, we are the bride (as the church) and He is our groom - our Husbandman. It is that we not look jealously upon the other 'wives' for they are also our brothers and sisters in Christ. There was much division between the two sisters of Leah and Rachel with Jacob. No doubt, where Solomon had so many there must have been fighting for position and attention to him. May we understand that where men are limited, Christ is not. He is able to love us all with the same affection and attention. May we be careful that our hearts affection is not toward something else than our 'Husbandman.'
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