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Song of Songs 3 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Bride’s Dream

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:1 - On my bed by night
I sought him whom my soul loves;
I sought him, but found him not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:2 - I will rise now and go about the city,
in the streets and in the squares;
I will seek him whom my soul loves.
I sought him, but found him not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:3 - The watchmen found me
as they went about in the city.
“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 - Scarcely had I passed them
when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go
until I had brought him into my mother’s house,
and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:5 - I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.

Solomon Arrives for the Wedding

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6 - What is that coming up from the wilderness
like columns of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:7 - Behold, it is the litter[fn] of Solomon!
Around it are sixty mighty men,
some of the mighty men of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:8 - all of them wearing swords
and expert in war,
each with his sword at his thigh,
against terror by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:9 - King Solomon made himself a carriage[fn]
from the wood of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:10 - He made its posts of silver,
its back of gold, its seat of purple;
its interior was inlaid with love
by the daughters of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:11 - Go out, O daughters of Zion,
and look upon King Solomon,
with the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
on the day of the gladness of his heart.
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
ESV Footnotes
That is, the couch on which servants carry a king
Or sedan chair
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Song of Songs Chapter 3 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras