Charles Ellicott Commentary Song Of Solomon 4:9

"Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, [my] bride; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck." — Song Of Solomon 4:9 (ASV)

Ravished. — The marginal note says, taken away, whereas many (including Herder, Ewald, etc.) give an exactly opposite sense: “you have given me heart, emboldened me.” The literal, “you have hearted (libabtinî) me,” if we can so say, may mean either; the language of love would approve either stolen my heart or given me yours. But the reference to “chain”— anak (a form occurring also in Judges 8:26; Proverbs 1:9) seems to confirm the rendering of the Authorized Version. His heart has been caught, the poet playfully says, by the neck-chain. Tennyson’s

“Your rose lips and full-blown eyes
Take the heart from my breast,”

gives the feeling of the passage.