Song Of Songs 3

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Verse 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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Verse 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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Verse 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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Verse 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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Verse 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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Verse 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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Verse 7

Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,
escorted by sixty warriors,
the noblest of Israel,

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Verse 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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Verse 9

King Solomon made for himself the carriage;
he made it of wood from Lebanon.

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Verse 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, ¹¹come out,
    and look, you daughters of Zion.
Look^[a] 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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