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Song of Songs 3
Legacy Standard Bible

The Bride’s Troubled Dream

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

5 “[e]I (H)call you to solemnly swear, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the (I)gazelles or by the hinds of the field,
That you do not arouse or awaken my love
Until [f]she pleases.”

Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Day

6 “[g](J)Who is this coming up from the wilderness
Like (K)columns of smoke,
As rising incense of (L)myrrh and (M)frankincense,
With all scented powders of the merchant?
7 Behold, it is the traveling couch of Solomon;
Sixty mighty men around it,
Of the mighty men of Israel.
8 All of them are those who seize the sword,
(N)Learned in war;
Each man has his (O)sword at his side,
Guarding against the [h](P)dreadful things of the night.
9 King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair
From the timber of Lebanon.
10 He made its posts of silver,
Its [i]back of gold
And its seat of purple fabric,
With its interior inlaid with love
By the (Q)daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go forth and see, O (R)daughters of Zion,
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 his gladness of heart.”

Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 3:1 BRIDE
  2. Song of Songs 3:2 Or Let me arise
  3. Song of Songs 3:2 Or Let me go about
  4. Song of Songs 3:2 Or Let me seek
  5. Song of Songs 3:5 BRIDEGROOM
  6. Song of Songs 3:5 Or it
  7. Song of Songs 3:6 CHORUS
  8. Song of Songs 3:8 Lit dreadful thing
  9. Song of Songs 3:10 Or support
  10. Song of Songs 3:11 Or wreath
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Song of Songs 3
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3 All night long on my bed
    I looked(A) for the one my heart loves;
    I looked for him but did not find him.
2 I will get up now and go about the city,
    through its streets and squares;
I will search for the one my heart loves.
    So I looked for him but did not find him.
3 The watchmen found me
    as they made their rounds in the city.(B)
    “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”
4 Scarcely had I passed them
    when I found the one my heart loves.
I held him and would not let him go
    till I had brought him to my mother’s house,(C)
    to the room of the one who conceived me.(D)
5 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you(E)
    by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
    until it so desires.(F)

6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness(G)
    like a column of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh(H) and incense
    made from all the spices(I) of the merchant?
7 Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,
    escorted by sixty warriors,(J)
    the noblest of Israel,
8 all of them wearing the sword,
    all experienced in battle,
each with his sword at his side,
    prepared for the terrors of the night.(K)
9 King Solomon made for himself the carriage;
    he made it of wood from Lebanon.
10 Its posts he made of silver,
    its base of gold.
Its seat was upholstered with purple,
    its interior inlaid with love.
Daughters of Jerusalem, 11 come out,
    and look, you daughters of Zion.(L)
Look[a] on King Solomon wearing a crown,
    the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
    the day his heart rejoiced.(M)

Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 3:11 Or interior lovingly inlaid / by the daughters of Jerusalem. / 11 Come out, you daughters of Zion, / and look
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