Song of Solomon 3

The Bride’s Dream

3On my bed ^rby night

I sought ^shim whom my soul loves;

^tI sought him, but found him not.

²I will rise now and go about the city,

in ^uthe streets and in the squares;

I will seek ^shim whom my soul loves.

I sought him, but found him not.

^3vThe watchmen found me

as they went about in the city.

“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

⁴Scarcely had I passed them

when I found ^shim whom my soul loves.

I ^wheld him, and would not let him go

until I had ^xbrought him into my mother’s house,

and into the chamber of ^yher who conceived me.

^5zI adjure you, ^aO daughters of Jerusalem,

^bby the gazelles or the does of the field,

that you not stir up or awaken love

until it pleases.

Solomon Arrives for the Wedding

^6cWhat is that coming up from the wilderness

like ^dcolumns of smoke,

perfumed with ^emyrrh and frankincense,

with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?

⁷Behold, it is the litter¹ of Solomon!

Around it are ^fsixty ^gmighty men,

some of the mighty men of Israel,

⁸all of them wearing swords

and expert in war,

each with his ^hsword at his thigh,

against ⁱterror by night.

⁹King Solomon made himself a carriage²

from the wood of Lebanon.

¹⁰He made its posts of silver,

its back of gold, its seat of purple;

its interior was inlaid with love

by ^jthe daughters of Jerusalem.

¹¹Go out, O ^kdaughters of Zion,

and look upon King Solomon,

with the crown with which his mother crowned him

on ^lthe day of his wedding,

on the day of the gladness of his heart.