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Song of Songs 3 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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The Bride’s Troubled Dream

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(The Shulammite Bride)

“On my bed night after night [I dreamed that] I sought the one

Whom my soul loves;

I sought him but did not find him.

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I said ‘So I must arise now and go out into the city;

Into the streets and into the squares [places I do not know]

I must seek him whom my soul loves.’

I sought him but I did not find him.

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“The watchmen who go around the city found me,

And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’

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“Scarcely had I passed them

When I found him whom my soul loves.

I held on to him and would not let him go

Until I had brought him to my mother’s house,

And into the chamber of her who conceived me.”

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(The Bridegroom)

“I command that you take an oath, O daughters of Jerusalem,

By the gazelles or by the does of the field,

That you do not rouse nor awaken my love

Until she pleases.”

Solomon’s Wedding Day

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(The Shulammite Bride)

“What is this coming up from the wilderness

Like [stately] pillars of smoke

Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,

With all the fragrant powders of the merchant?”

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(The Chorus)

“Behold, it is the couch ([fn]palanquin) of Solomon;

Sixty mighty men around it,

Of the mighty men of Israel.

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“All of them handle the sword,

All expert in war;

Each man has his sword at his thigh,

Guarding against the terrors of the night.

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“King Solomon has made for himself a palanquin

From the [cedar] wood of Lebanon.

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“He made its posts of silver,

Its back of gold,

Its seat of purple cloth,

The interior lovingly and intricately wrought

By the daughters of Jerusalem.

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“Go forth, O daughters of Zion,

And gaze on King Solomon wearing the crown

With which his mother [Bathsheba] has crowned him

On the day of his wedding,

On the day of his gladness of heart.”

AMP Footnotes
A conveyance that was used in ancient times especially for the transport of one person, that consisted of an enclosed sedan chair usually in the form of a box with wooden shutters, and that is carried on the shoulders of men by means of projecting poles.
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