Song 3 | LSB | STEP | “ On my bed night after night I sought him Whom my soul loves; I sought him but did not find him.

Song of Solomon 3

The Bride’s Troubled Dream

1 “ ^▼▼BRIDEOn my bed night after night I sought him
Whom my soul loves;
I sought him but did not find him.
2 ‘ ^{▼▼Or Let me arise}I must arise now and ^{▼▼Or Let me go about}go about the city;
In the streets and in the squares
^{▼▼ Or Let me seek}I must seek him whom my soul loves.’
I sought him but did not find him.
3 “The watchmen who go about the city found me,
And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
4 “Scarcely had I passed them by
When I found him whom my soul loves;
I seized 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.”
5 “ ^{▼▼BRIDEGROOM}I call you to solemnly swear, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the gazelles or by the hinds of the field,
That you do not arouse or awaken my love
Until ^{▼▼Or it}she pleases.”

Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Day

6 “ ^▼▼CHORUSWho is this coming up from the wilderness
Like columns of smoke,
As rising incense of myrrh and frankincense,
With all scented powders of the merchant?
7 “Behold, it is the traveling couch of Solomon;
Sixty mighty men around it,
Of the mighty men of Israel.
8 “All of them are those who seize the sword,
Learned in war;
Each man has his sword at his side,
Guarding against the ^{▼▼Lit dreadful thing}dreadful things of the night.
9 “King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair
From the timber of Lebanon.
10 “He made its posts of silver,
Its ^{▼▼Or support}back of gold
And its seat of purple fabric,
With its interior inlaid with love
By the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 “Go forth and see, O daughters of Zion,
King Solomon with the ^{▼▼Or wreath}crown
With which his mother has crowned him
On the day of his wedding,
And on the day of his gladness of heart.”