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href="../songs/2.htm" title="Song of Solomon 2">◄</a> Song of Solomon 3 <a href="../songs/4.htm" 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/songs/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Bride’s Dream</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">On my bed by night</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I sought him whom my soul loves;</span><br /><span class="indent">I sought him, but found him not.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will rise now and go about the city,</span><br /><span class="indent">in the streets and in the squares;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will seek him whom my soul loves.</span><br /><span class="indent">I sought him, but found him not.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The watchmen found me</span><br /><span class="indent">as they went about in the city.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Scarcely had I passed them</span><br /><span class="indent">when I found him whom my soul loves.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I held him, and would not let him go</span><br /><span class="indent">until I had brought him into my mother’s house,</span><br /><span class="indent">and into the chamber of her who conceived me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent">by the gazelles or the does of the field,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">that you not stir up or awaken love</span><br /><span class="indent">until it pleases.</span></p> <p class="heading">Solomon Arrives for the Wedding</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">What is that coming up from the wilderness</span><br /><span class="indent">like columns of smoke,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,</span><br /><span class="indent">with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, it is the litter<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, the couch on which servants carry a king">a</a></sup></span> of Solomon!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Around it are sixty mighty men,</span><br /><span class="indent">some of the mighty men of Israel,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">all of them wearing swords</span><br /><span class="indent">and expert in war,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">each with his sword at his thigh,</span><br /><span class="indent">against terror by night.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">King Solomon made himself a carriage<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or sedan chair">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">from the wood of Lebanon.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He made its posts of silver,</span><br /><span class="indent">its back of gold, its seat of purple;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">its interior was inlaid with love</span><br /><span class="indent">by the daughters of Jerusalem.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Go out, O daughters of Zion,</span><br /><span class="indent">and look upon King Solomon,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">with the crown with which his mother crowned him</span><br /><span class="indent">on the day of his wedding,</span><br /><span class="indent">on the day of the gladness of his heart.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> That is, <span class="catch-word">the</span> couch on which servants carry a king<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i>sedan chair</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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