LEB SNG Chapter 3

Maiden’s Dream (?): Seeking and Finding

• I sought[fn] him whom my[fn] loves.
• I sought him, but I did not find him.
  • 2  in the streets and in the squares;
• I will seek him whom my[fn] loves.
  • I sought him, but I did not find him.
  • 3  “Have you seen the one whom my[fn] loves?”
  • 4 [fn] by them when I found him whom my[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 [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 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 It is Solomon’s[fn] Sixty mighty men surround[fn]
    • the mighty men of Israel.
  • 8 [fn] they are[fn]
• each with his sword at his thigh
  • to guard[fn] in the night.
  • 9 [fn] made for himself a sedan chair from the wood of Lebanon.
  • 10 [fn] of gold, its seat of purple; its interior is inlaid with leather[fn] by[fn]
  • 11 [fn] at[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!