Song of Solomon 3

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The Bride’s Troubled Dream

3 “On my bed night after night I sought him
^(A)Whom my soul loves;
I ^(B)sought him but did not find him.
²‘^[a]I must arise now and ^[b]go around in the city;
In the ^(C)streets and in the public squares
^[c]I must seek him whom my soul loves.’
I sought him but did not find him.
³^(D)The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me,
And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
⁴^(E)Hardly had I ^[d]left them
When I found him whom my soul loves;
I ^(F)held on to him and would not let him go
Until I had ^(G)brought him to my mother’s house,
And into the room of her who conceived me.”

The Groom

⁵“^(H)Swear to me, you daughters of Jerusalem,
By the ^(I)gazelles or by the does of the field,
That you will not disturb or awaken my love
Until she pleases.”

Solomon’s Wedding Day

The Bride

⁶“^[e]^(J)What is this coming up from the wilderness
Like ^(K)columns of smoke,
Perfumed with ^(L)myrrh and ^(M)frankincense,
With all the scented powders of the merchant?

The Chorus

⁷Behold, it is ^[f]the traveling couch of Solomon;
Sixty warriors around it,
Of the warriors of Israel.
⁸All of them are wielders of the sword,
^(N)Expert in war;
Each man has his ^(O)sword at his side,
Guarding against the ^[g]^(P)terrors of the night.
⁹King Solomon has made for himself a ^[h]sedan chair
From the timber of Lebanon.
¹⁰He made its posts of silver,
Its ^[i]back of gold
And its seat of purple fabric,
With its interior lovingly inlaid
By the ^(Q)daughters of Jerusalem.
¹¹Go out, you ^(R)daughters of Zion,
And look at King Solomon with the ^[j]crown
With which his mother has crowned him
On the ^(S)day of his wedding,
And on the day of the joy of his heart.”

Footnotes

Song of Solomon 3:2 Or Let me arise
Song of Solomon 3:2 Or Let me go about
Song of Solomon 3:2 Or Let me seek
Song of Solomon 3:4 Lit passed
Song of Solomon 3:6 Lit Who
Song of Solomon 3:7 I.e., an elegant couch designed to be carried with poles by servants
Song of Solomon 3:8 Lit terror in the nights
Song of Solomon 3:9 I.e., an elegant throne with poles, carried by servants
Song of Solomon 3:10 Or support
Song of Solomon 3:11 Or wreath

Psalm 144:1-8

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Prayer for Rescue and Prosperity.

A Psalm of David.

144 Blessed be the Lord, ^(A)my rock,
Who ^(B)trains my hands for war,
And my fingers for battle;
²My faithfulness and ^(C)my fortress,
My ^(D)stronghold and my savior,
My ^(E)shield and He in whom I take refuge,
Who ^(F)subdues ^[a]my people under me.
³Lord, ^(G)what is man, that You look after him?
Or a son of man, that You think of him?
⁴^(H)Man is like the breath;
His ^(I)days are like a passing shadow.

⁵^(J)Bend down Your heavens, Lord, and ^(K)come down;
^(L)Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
⁶Flash forth ^(M)lightning and scatter them;
Send out Your ^(N)arrows and confuse them.
⁷Reach out with Your hand ^(O)from on high;
Rescue me and ^(P)save me from great waters,
From the hand of ^(Q)foreigners
⁸Whose mouths ^(R)speak deceit,
And whose ^(S)right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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Footnotes

Psalm 144:2 Another reading is peoples

Revelation 11

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The Two Witnesses

11 Then there was given to me a ^[a]^(A)measuring rod like a staff; ^[b]and ^(B)someone said, “Get up and measure the ^[c]temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it. ²^[d]Leave out the ^(C)courtyard which is outside the ^[e]temple and do not measure it, because ^(D)it has been given to the nations; and they will ^(E)trample ^(F)the holy city for ^(G)forty-two months. ³And I will grant authority to my two ^(H)witnesses, and they will prophesy for ^(I)1,260 days, clothed in ^(J)sackcloth.” ⁴These are the ^(K)two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. ⁵And if anyone wants to harm them, ^(L)fire flows out of their mouth and devours their enemies; and so if anyone wants to harm them, ^(M)he must be killed in this way. ⁶These have the power to ^(N)shut up the sky, so that rain will not fall during ^(O)the days of their prophesying; and they have power over the waters to ^(P)turn them into blood, and ^(Q)to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

⁷When they have finished their testimony, ^(R)the beast that comes up out of the ^(S)abyss will ^(T)make war with them, and overcome them and kill them. ⁸And their dead bodies will lie on the street of the ^(U)great city which ^[f]spiritually is called ^(V)Sodom and ^(W)Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. ⁹Those from ^(X)the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their dead ^[g]bodies for three and a half days, and ^[h]^(Y)will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. ¹⁰And ^(Z)those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate; and they will ^(AA)send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented ^(AB)those who live on the earth.

¹¹And after the three and a half days, ^(AC)the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were watching them. ¹²And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “^(AD)Come up here.” And they ^(AE)went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies watched them. ¹³And ^[i]at that time there was a great ^(AF)earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; ^[j]seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and ^(AG)gave glory to the ^(AH)God of heaven.

¹⁴The second ^(AI)woe has passed; behold, the third woe is coming quickly.

The Seventh Trumpet: Christ’s Reign Foreseen

¹⁵Then the ^(AJ)seventh angel sounded; and there were ^(AK)loud voices in heaven, saying,

“^(AL)The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of ^(AM)His ^[k]Christ; and ^(AN)He will reign forever and ever.” ¹⁶And the twenty-four elders, who ^(AO)sit on their thrones before God, ^(AP)fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷saying,

“We give You thanks, ^(AQ)Lord God, the Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to ^(AR)reign. ¹⁸And ^(AS)the nations were enraged, and ^(AT)Your wrath came, and ^(AU)the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to ^[l]reward Your ^(AV)bond-servants the prophets and the ^[m]saints and those who fear Your name, ^(AW)the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

¹⁹And ^(AX)the ^[n]temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and ^(AY)the ark of His covenant appeared in His ^[o]temple, and there were flashes of ^(AZ)lightning and sounds and peals of thunder, and an earthquake, and a ^(BA)great ^[p]hailstorm.