Shared Word Translation
Song of Songs 3
The Bride Seeks Her Beloved
Upon my bed by night
I sought him whom my soul loves.
I sought him,
but I did not find him.
“I will arise 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 did not find him.
The watchmen found me
as they went about in the city.
“Have you seen him
whom my soul loves?”
Scarcely had I passed 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,
and into the chamber
of her who conceived me.
I adjure you,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles
or by the does of the field:
do not stir up
or awaken love
until it pleases.
The Wedding Procession
What is this
coming up from the wilderness
like columns of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?
Behold, it is Solomon's couch.
Sixty mighty men surround it,
of the mighty men of Israel,
all of them bearing swords
and trained in war,
each with his sword at his side,
because of fear in the night.
King Solomon made for himself
a carriage
from the wood of Lebanon.
He made its posts of silver,
its back of gold,
its seat of purple.
Its interior was inlaid with love
by the daughters of Jerusalem.
Go out, O daughters of Zion,
and look upon King Solomon,
with the crown
with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
on the day of the gladness of his heart.