5. Turn away thine eyes from me, &c. These awe-inspiring hosts are described as concentrated in her eyes, which Solomon implores the Shulamite to remove from him. “The artillery of the eyes,” says Dr. Good, in loco, “is an idea common to poets of every nation.” Thus Anacreon, xvi. Σὺ μὲν λέγεις τὰ Θήβης, Ὁ δ’ αὖ Φρυγῶν ἀϋτάς· Ἐγὼ δ’ ἐμὰς ἁλώσεις. Οὐχ ἵππος ὤλεσέν με, Οὐ πεζὸς, οὐχὶ νῆες· Στρατὸς δὲ καινὸς ἄλλος, Ἀπ’ ὀμμάτων με βάλων. “Sing thou of Thebes—let others tell How Troy’s foundations rose and fell; My numbers shall alone repeat My own rencounters and defeat. Me fleets and armies ne’er appal— ’Tis to a different host I fall: A host within thine eyes, my fair, That lurk and ply their arrows there.” Comp. also Ode ii. ‏רָהַב‎, in Kal, to tremble (Isa. lx. 5), and Hiphil, to cause to tremble or fear, to frighten, to awe. Similarly the Sept. ἀνεπτέρωσάν με. Vulg. me avolare fecerunt, “they make me flee for fear;” and the Syriac ܐܰܪܗܶܒ‎, they make me fear. The explanation of Ibn Ezra, ‏חזקו ממני‎, which is followed by the Authorized Version, cannot be deduced from the root; nor does it suit the context. Equally untenable is the explanation ‏הגיסו לבי‎, Rashi and Rashbam. For ‏הֵם‎, mas, with ‏עֵינַיִךְ‎, fem. see supra, iv. 9. 6, 7. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep, &c. For the interpretation of the second half of ver. 5 and vers. 6, 7, see iv. 1–3, where the same description is given, with the exception that there ‏קְצוּבוֹת‎ is used for sheep, and here ‏רְחֵלִים‎, and that the first half of ver. 3 is here omitted in the Hebrew, which is here given by the Sept. We cannot refrain from quoting the beautiful explanation of these figures from the manuscript commentary of Immanuel: ‏תלתלי שערך ושורותיו נופלים זה על זה לדמיון עדר העזים שהם נתלים זה על זה בהרים ושניך הﬦ לבניﬦ ושויﬦ לדמיון עדר הרחליﬦ, שצמדם לבן והם עולים מן הרחצה שכלם מתאימות שב אל שניה שהם שוות, ושכולה אין בהם שאין שן משניה נגרע ונחסר או הם תואר הרחלים שהם שוות ואין בהם שכילה וכן שניה דומות אליהם.‏‎ The Septuagint adds after ‏וְשַׁכֻּלָּה אֵין בָּהֶם‎, and not one among them is bereaved, in ver. 6; ὡς σπαρτίον τὸ κόκκινον χείλη σου, καὶ λαλιά σου ὠραία, like a braid of scarlet are thy lips, and thy mouth is lovely, from chap iv. 3.