5:2 Again the woman dreamed (cf. 3:1-4). In her dream her husband came to her having been out of doors in the evening. His mind appears to have been on making love in view of what follows.
5:3-4 However she had lost interest. She gave a weak excuse: she had already gotten ready for bed (and may have had a headache). When he tried to open her door but found it locked, he gave up and went away.75It was not long before she knew she had erred in discouraging him.
5:5-7 She went to the door and found that he had been ready to make love (v. 5; cf. Prov. 7:17; Song of Sol. 4:6, 5:13). She opened it but discovered he had gone. The fact that in her dream the watchmen beat her may indicate that she subconsciously felt that someone should punish her for refusing him.
"If the redid["shawl"] was a loose cloak that was removed by the watchmen, they may be pictured here as gazing on the wall', i.e.the girl in her state of semi-nakedness."76
5:8 She told her friends to tell her husband if they saw him that she wanted his love again (cf. 2:5-6).
"Lovesick' here seems to describe frustration from sexual abstinence rather than exhaustion from sexual activity (cf. on 2:5).77
