Song of Songs 3
EasyEnglish Bible
A young woman's dream
The young woman:[a]
3 All night I lay on my bed.
I wanted my lover to come to me.
I looked for him but he did not appear.
2 I thought, ‘I will get up now and I will go into the city.
I will look everywhere for my lover.
I will look in all the streets.
I will look in all the market places.’
So I looked for him,
but I did not find him.
3 The city guards found me
as they walked in the streets of the city.
I asked them,
‘Have you seen the man that I love?’
4 Just then, as I left them, I found my lover!
I hugged him and I would not let him go.
I took him to my mother's house.
I took him into my mother's bedroom.
That is where my life started, inside my mother's body.
5 Promise this to me, young women of Jerusalem:
Do not cause our love to wake up.
Do not cause it to become too strong
until the time is right.
The gazelles and the wild deer will know about your promise.
A royal wedding
6 Who is this who is coming from the desert?[b]
It seems that smoke is rising into the air!
There is a lovely smell of myrrh and incense.[c]
It is the smell of all the spices that a trader sells.
7 Look! They are carrying King Solomon on a throne![d]
60 soldiers are travelling with it.[e]
They are Israel's bravest soldiers.
8 All of them have swords.
They all know how to fight well.
Their swords are ready for them to use.
They are ready for any danger that comes in the night.
9 King Solomon made the throne for himself.
He used wood from Lebanon to make it.[f]
10 He used silver to make the posts for it.
He used gold to make its back.
Its seat has valuable purple cloth to cover it.
The young women of Jerusalem made it beautiful inside,
to show their love.
11 Young women of Zion,
come out to see King Solomon![g]
He is wearing his crown.
His mother put the crown on him on his wedding day.
It was the happiest day of his life!
Footnotes
- 3:1 The woman tells her friends about a dream.
- 3:6 The speaker here may be the young woman herself, or it might be one of her friends.
- 3:6 The ‘smoke’ that is rising may be sand or dirt from the ground. It blows about because many people are moving. There is also a lovely smell of spice.
- 3:7 People could carry someone on this kind of throne. See verse 9.
- 3:7 Verses 7 and 9 may mean that King Solomon is the man in the story. But, if not, maybe the man and woman are singing a song at their marriage. The song that they sing is about Solomon's marriage.
- 3:9 Lebanon is a country where there are mountains and many strong trees.
- 3:11 ‘Young women of Zion’ is another name for the woman's friends.
Song of Solomon 3
New King James Version
A Troubled Night
The Shulamite
3 By (A)night on my bed I sought the one I love;
I sought him, but I did not find him.
2 “I will rise now,” I said,
“And go about the city;
In the streets and in the squares
I will seek the one I love.”
I sought him, but I did not find him.
3 (B)The watchmen who go about the city found me;
I said,
“Have you seen the one I love?”
4 Scarcely had I passed by them,
When I found the one I love.
I held him and would not let him go,
Until I had brought him to the (C)house of my mother,
And into the [a]chamber of her who conceived me.
5 (D)I [b]charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the gazelles or by the does of the field,
Do not stir up nor awaken love
Until it pleases.
The Coming of Solomon
The Shulamite
6 (E)Who is this coming out of the wilderness
Like pillars of smoke,
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
With all the merchant’s fragrant powders?
7 Behold, it is Solomon’s couch,
With sixty valiant men around it,
Of the valiant of Israel.
8 They all hold swords,
Being expert in war.
Every man has his sword on his thigh
Because of fear in the night.
9 Of the wood of Lebanon
Solomon the King
Made himself a [c]palanquin:
10 He made its pillars of silver,
Its support of gold,
Its seat of purple,
Its interior paved with love
By the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go forth, O daughters of Zion,
And see King Solomon with the crown
With which his mother crowned him
On the day of his wedding,
The day of the gladness of his heart.
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 3:4 room
- Song of Solomon 3:5 adjure
- Song of Solomon 3:9 A portable enclosed chair
Höga Visan 3
Svenska 1917
3 Där jag låg på mitt läger om natten, sökte jag honom som min själ har kär; jag sökte honom, men fann honom icke.
2 »Jag vill stå upp och gå omkring i staden, på gatorna och på torgen; jag vill söka honom som min själ har kär.» Jag sökte honom, men fann honom icke.
3 Väktarna mötte mig, där de gingo omkring i staden. »Haven I sett honom som min själ har kär?»
4 Knappt hade jag kommit förbi dem, så fann jag honom som min själ har kär. Jag tog honom fatt, och jag släppte honom icke, förrän jag hade fört honom in i min moders hus, in i min fostrarinnas kammare. ----
5 Jag besvär eder, I Jerusalems döttrar, vid gaseller och hindar på marken: Oroen icke kärleken, stören den icke, förrän den själv så vill. ----
6 Vem är hon som kommer hitupp från öknen såsom i stoder av rök, kringdoftad av myrra och rökelse och alla slags köpmannakryddor?
7 Se, det är Salomos bärstol! Sextio hjältar omgiva den, utvalda bland Israels hjältar.
8 Alla bära de svärd och äro väl förfarna i strid. Var och en har sitt svärd vid sin länd, till värn mot nattens faror.
9 En praktbår är det som konung Salomo har låtit göra åt sig av virke från Libanon.
10 Dess sidostöd äro gjorda av silver, ryggstödet av guld, sätet belagt med purpurrött tyg. Innantill är den prydd i kärlek av Jerusalems döttrar.
11 I Sions döttrar, gån ut och skåden konung Salomo med lust, skåden kransen som hans moder har krönt honom med på hans bröllopsdag, på hans hjärtefröjds dag.
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