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<!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"><title>Song of Solomon 3 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.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="../">CPDV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/songs/3-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Bride’s Dream<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Bride: <font color=#0000CC>On my bed, throughout the night, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him.</font><p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>I will rise up, and I will circle through the city. Through the side streets and thoroughfares, I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him.</font><p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>The watchers who guard the city found me: “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”</font><p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>When I had passed by them a little, I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not release him, until I would bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who bore me.</font><p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Groom to Chorus: <font color=#CC0000>I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the does and the stags of the open field, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills.</font><p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Day<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Chorus to Groom: <font color=#008800>Who is she, who ascends through the desert, like a staff of smoke from the aromatics of myrrh, and frankincense, and every powder of the perfumer?</font><p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Chorus to Bride: <font color=#008800>Lo, sixty strong ones, out of all the strongest in Israel, stand watch at the bed of Solomon,</font><p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=#008800>all holding swords and well-trained in warfare, each one’s weapon upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.</font><p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Bride to Chorus: <font color=#0000CC>King Solomon made himself a portable throne from the wood of Lebanon.</font><p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>He made its columns of silver, the reclining place of gold, the ascent of purple; the middle he covered well, out of charity for the daughters of Jerusalem.</font><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>O daughters of Zion, go forth and see king Solomon with the diadem with which his mother crowned him, on the day of his espousal, on the day of the rejoicing of his heart.</font><p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../songs/2.htm" 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.htm" 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="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>