Song of Songs 3:1-4
New International Version
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)
Song of Solomon 3:1-4
Lexham English Bible
Maiden’s Dream (?): Seeking and Finding
3 On my bed in the night,
I sought[a] him whom my heart[b] loves.
I sought him, but I did not find him.
2 Now I will arise, and I will go about in the city,
in the streets and in the squares;
I will seek him whom my heart[c] loves.
I sought him, but I did not find him.
3 The sentinels who go about in the city found me.
“Have you seen the one whom my heart[d] loves?”
4 Scarcely had I passed[e] by them
when I found him whom my heart[f] loves.
I held him and I would not let him go
until I brought him to the house of my mother,
into the bedroom chamber of she who conceived me.
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 3:1 Or “I seek”
- Song of Solomon 3:1 Literally “soul”
- Song of Solomon 3:2 Literally “soul”
- Song of Solomon 3:3 Literally “soul”
- Song of Solomon 3:4 Literally “As little that I passed”
- Song of Solomon 3:4 Literally “soul”
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