LEB SNG Chapter 3

Maiden’s Dream (?): Seeking and Finding

• 3 On my bed in the night,
  • I sought[fn] him whom my heart[fn] loves.
• I sought him, but I did not find him.
• 2 Now I will arise, and I will go about in the city,
  • in the streets and in the squares;
• I will seek him whom my heart[fn] loves.
  • I sought him, but I did not find him.
• 3 The sentinels who go about in the city found me.
  • “Have you seen the one whom my heart[fn] loves?”
• 4 Scarcely had I passed[fn] by them
  • when I found him whom my heart[fn] loves.
• I held him and I would not let him go
  • until I brought him to the house of my mother,
    • into the bedroom chamber of she who conceived me.

Adjuration Refrain

• 5 I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem ,[fn]
  • by the gazelles or by the does of the field,
• do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases![fn]

Royal Wedding Procession

• 6 What is this coming up from the desert
  • like a column of smoke,
• perfumed with myrrh and frankincense
  • from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
• 7 Look! It is Solomon’s portable couch ![fn]
  • Sixty mighty men surround it ,[fn]
    • the mighty men of Israel.
• 8 All of them wield swords ;[fn]
  • they are trained in warfare ,[fn]
• each with his sword at his thigh
  • to guard against terror[fn] in the night.
• 9 King Solomon[fn] made for himself a sedan chair
  • from the wood of Lebanon.
• 10 He made its column of silver, its back[fn] of gold, its seat of purple;
  • its interior is inlaid with leather[fn] by the maidens of Jerusalem .[fn]
• 11 Come out and look, O maidens of Zion ,[fn] at King Solomon ,[fn]
  • at the crown with which his mother crowned him
• on the day of his wedding,
  • on the day of the joy of his heart!