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Song of Songs 3:2-4
New Catholic Bible
Song of Songs 3:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 I said, “I will rise and go through the city,
along the streets and in the squares.
I will seek the one my heart loves.”
I sought him, but I could not find him.
3 The watchmen[a] came upon me
as they made their rounds of the city,
and I asked them,
“Have you seen the one my heart loves?”
4 I had hardly gone past them
when I found the one my heart loves.
I held him and would not let him go
until I had brought him to my mother’s house,[b]
to the very room where she had conceived me.
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 3:3 Watchmen: they stood on the walls (see 2 Sam 13:34; Ps 127:1; Isa 52:8) or at the gates of the city (see Neh 3:29) and patrolled the streets as well (Song 5:7).
- Song of Songs 3:4 Mother’s house: mothers are referred to frequently in this Book, though fathers are completely ignored.
