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Song of Songs 3 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:1 - All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:2 - I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:3 - The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 - Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:5 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6 - Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant?

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:7 - Look! It is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty warriors, the noblest of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:8 - all of them wearing the sword, all experienced in battle, each with his sword at his side, prepared for the terrors of the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:9 - King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of wood from Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:10 - Its posts he made of silver, its base of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple, its interior inlaid with love. Daughters of Jerusalem,

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:11 - come out, and look, you daughters of Zion. Look[fn] on King Solomon wearing a crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.
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Or interior lovingly inlaid / by the daughters of Jerusalem. / 11 Come out, you daughters of Zion, / and look
Or interior lovingly inlaid / by the daughters of Jerusalem. / 11 Come out, you daughters of Zion, / and look
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Song of Songs Chapter 3 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation English Standard 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