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Song of Songs 3

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[Woman]
1Upon my bed, night after night,
I looked for the one whom I love with all my heart.
I looked for him but couldn’t find him.#3.1 LXX adds I called him, but he didn't answer me; cf 5:6.
2“I will rise now and go all around the city,
through the streets and the squares.
I will look for the one whom I love with all my heart.”
I looked for him but couldn’t find him.
3The guards found me,
those who make their rounds in the city.
“The one whom I love with all my heart—
have you seen him?”
4No sooner did I depart from them
than I found the one whom I love with all my heart.
I held on to him and now I won’t let him go,
until I’ve brought him to my mother’s house,
to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
5I place you under oath, daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the wild deer:
don’t rouse, don’t arouse love
until it desires.
Visions of grandeur
6Who is this, coming up from the wilderness,
like pillars of smoke?
She is perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
selected from all the spice merchant’s powders.
7Picture Solomon’s bed—
sixty heroic men round about it,
all from the heroes of Israel,
8all of them skilled with the sword,
expert in warfare,
each with his sword ready at his thigh
against terrors that come by night.
9King Solomon made a canopied couch for himself
from the trees of Lebanon.
10Its pillars he made of silver,
its covering, cloth of gold,
its cushions, royal purple;
its interior inlaid with love.
Daughters of Jerusalem, 11go forth!
Look, daughters of Zion—
on King Solomon wearing the crown
with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
on the day of his heart’s joy.

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Song of Songs 3: CEB

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