Song of Solomon 3
The Bride's
Reverie |
1 |
By night on my bed I sought him whom my
soul loveth:
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I sought him, but I found him
not. |
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2 |
I will rise now, and go about the
city
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in the streets, and in the broad ways |
I will seek him whom my soul loveth: |
I sought him, but I found him
not. |
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3 |
The watchmen that go about the city found
me:
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to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul
loveth? |
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4 |
It was but a little that I passed
from them,
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but I found him whom my soul loveth: |
I held him, and would not let him go, |
until I had brought him into my mother's
house, |
and into the chamber of her that conceived
me. |
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5 |
I charge you, O ye daughters of
Jerusalem,
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by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, |
that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, |
till he
please. |
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The Wedding
Procession |
6 |
Who is this that cometh out of the
wilderness like pillars of smoke,
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perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, |
with all powders of the
merchant? |
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7 |
Behold his bed, which is Solomon's;
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threescore valiant men are about it, |
of the valiant of
Israel. |
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8 |
They all hold swords,
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being expert in war: |
every man hath his sword upon his thigh |
because of fear in the
night. |
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9 |
King Solomon made himself a chariot
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10 |
He made the pillars thereof of silver,
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the bottom thereof of gold, |
the covering of it of purple, |
the midst thereof being paved with love, |
for the daughters of
Jerusalem. |
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11 |
Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and
behold king Solomon
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with the crown wherewith his mother crowned
him |
in the day of his espousals, |
and in the day of the gladness of his
heart. |
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