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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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Beautiful Dreams</h3><h5 class="sp">She Speaks:</h5><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_1"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.1" class="v22_3_1">1</span>While in bed at night,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_1">I reached for the one I love</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_1">with heart and soul.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_1">I looked for him,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_1">but he wasn't there.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_2"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.2" class="v22_3_2">2</span>So I searched through the town</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_2">for the one I love.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_2">I looked on every street,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_2">but he wasn't there.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_3"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.3" class="v22_3_3">3</span>I even asked the guards</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_3">patrolling the town,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_3">“Have you seen the one</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_3">I love so much?”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_4"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.4" class="v22_3_4">4</span>Right after that, I found him.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_4">I held him and would not let go</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_4">until I had taken him</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_4">to the home of my mother.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_5"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.5" class="v22_3_5">5</span>Young women of Jerusalem,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_5">promise me by the power</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_5">of deer and gazelles,<a href="#fn" id="link_Song.3.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_5">never to awaken love</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_5">before it is ready.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Groom and the Wedding Party</h3><h5 class="sp">Their Friends Speak:</h5><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_6"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.6" class="v22_3_6">6</span>What do we see approaching</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_6">from the desert</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_6">like a cloud of smoke?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_6">With it comes the sweet smell</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_6">of spices, including myrrh</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_6">and frankincense.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_7"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.7" class="v22_3_7">7</span>It is King Solomon</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_7">carried on a throne,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_7">surrounded by sixty</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_7">of Israel's best soldiers.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_8"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.8" class="v22_3_8">8</span>Each of them wears a sword.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_8">They are experts at fighting,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_8">even in the dark.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_9"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.9" class="v22_3_9">9</span>The throne is made of trees</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_9">from Lebanon.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_10"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.10" class="v22_3_10">10</span>Its posts are silver,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_10">the back is gold,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_10">and the seat is covered</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_10">with purple cloth.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_10">You women of Jerusalem</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_10">have taken great care</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_10">to furnish the inside.<a href="#fn" id="link_Song.3.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_11"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.11" class="v22_3_11">11</span>Now come and see the crown</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_11">given to Solomon by his mother</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_11">on his happy wedding day.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">3.5 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">deer and gazelles: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 2.7.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">3.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">inside: 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