CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Song of Solomon 3 NKJV KJV Parallel</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newp.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/songs/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../../topmenuchap/songs/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/songs/">Songs</a> > Songs 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../songs/2.shtml" title="Song of Solomon 2">◄</a> Song of Solomon 3 <a href="../songs/4.shtml" title="Song of Solomon 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">NKJV Parallel KJV <a href="../../bsb/songs/3.shtml">[BSB</a> <a href="../../csb/songs/3.shtml">CSB</a> <a href="../../esv/songs/3.shtml">ESV</a> <a href="../../hcs/songs/3.shtml">HCS</a> <a href="../../kjv/songs/3.shtml">KJV</a> <a href="../../isv/songs/3.shtml">ISV</a> <a href="../../nas/songs/3.shtml">NAS</a> <a href="../../net/songs/3.shtml">NET</a> <a href="../../niv/songs/3.shtml">NIV</a> <a href="../../nlt/songs/3.shtml">NLT</a> <a href="../../heb/songs/3.shtml">HEB]</a></div><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="50%">New King James Version</td><td class="version" width="50%">King James Bible</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">By night on my bed I sought the one I love; I sought him, but I did not find him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“I will rise now,” <i>I said,</i> “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.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The watchmen who go about the city found me; <i>I said,</i> “Have you seen the one I love?”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The watchmen that go about the city found me: <i>to whom I said</i>, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">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 house of my mother, And into the chamber of her who conceived me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2"><i>It was</i> but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I 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.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake <i>my</i> love, till he please.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who <i>is</i> this coming out of the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all the merchant’s fragrant powders?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who <i>is</i> this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Behold, it <i>is</i> Solomon’s couch, <i>With</i> sixty valiant men around it, Of the valiant of Israel.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold his bed, which <i>is</i> Solomon's; threescore valiant men <i>are</i> about it, of the valiant of Israel.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They all hold swords, <i>Being</i> expert in war. Every man <i>has</i> his sword on his thigh Because of fear in the night.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They all hold swords, <i>being</i> expert in war: every man <i>hath</i> his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Of the wood of Lebanon Solomon the King Made himself a palanquin:<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He made its pillars <i>of</i> silver, Its support <i>of</i> gold, Its seat <i>of</i> purple, Its interior paved <i>with</i> love By the daughters of Jerusalem.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He made the pillars thereof <i>of</i> silver, the bottom thereof <i>of</i> gold, the covering of it <i>of</i> purple, the midst thereof being paved <i>with</i> love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">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.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">King James Bible, text courtesy of <a href="http://bibleprotector.com/">BibleProtector.com</a>.</td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../songs/2.shtml" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../songs/4.shtml" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Song of Solomon 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>