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Song of Solomon 3 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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not;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I called him, but he gave no answer.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19643a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>“I will rise now and go about the city,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in the streets and in the squares;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will seek him whom my soul loves.”</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I sought him, but found him not.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>The sentinels found me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">as they went about in the city.</span></span><br /><span class="text">“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”</span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Scarcely had I passed them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">when I found him whom my soul loves.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I held him, and would not let him go</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">until I brought him into my mother’s house,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and into the chamber of her that conceived me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">by the gazelles or the wild does:</span></span><br /><span class="text">do not stir up or awaken love</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">until it is ready!</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Groom and His Party Approach</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>What is that coming up from the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like a column of smoke,</span></span><br /><span class="text">perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Look, it is the litter of Solomon!</span><br /><span class="text">Around it are sixty mighty men</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">of the mighty men of Israel,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>all equipped with swords</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and expert in war,</span></span><br /><span class="text">each with his sword at his thigh</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">because of alarms by night.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>King Solomon made himself a palanquin</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from the wood of Lebanon.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>He made its posts of silver,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">its back of gold, its seat of purple;</span></span><br /><span class="text">its interior was inlaid with love.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19652b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Daughters of Jerusalem,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>come out.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Look, O daughters of Zion,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">at King Solomon,</span></span><br /><span class="text">at the crown with which his mother crowned him</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">on the day of his wedding,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">on the day of the gladness of his heart.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 3:1">Song of Solomon 3:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb lacks this line</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 3:10">Song of Solomon 3:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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