Read Song of Solomon 3

World English Bible · 11 verses

1. ¹ By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org