His left hand is under my head, &c.] Chap. 8. 3. Alluding to their feasts, when they lay on the ground; so that if any fainted, they put one hand under them to lift them up, and gave them some comfortable potion with the other. his right hand doth embrace me] Onely Christs embraces can cure us in our trances. It seems he was now gone, and she thereupon falling into a trance, being by his ministers recovered, and taking rest, he suddenly coming in, and finding her asleep, forbids her attendants to awake or disturb her, v. 7. But she hearing his voice, awakes of her self, v. 8. So Christ soon comes to his Church in trouble, and she soon apprehends his coming, psal. 63. 8. and 73. 23. Or it may be the Churches speech, forbidding her attendants to disturb her Spouse, when he is at rest with her. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me] Or, let his left hand be under my head, and his right hand embrace me.