Thematic Bible
Song of Songs 3:1 (show verse)
(The Shulammite Bride)“On my bed night after night [I dreamed that] I sought the one
Whom my soul loves;
I sought him but did not find him.
Whom my soul loves;
I sought him but did not find him.
Song of Songs 3:2 (show verse)
“I said ‘So I must arise now and go out into the city;
Into the streets and into the squares [places I do not know]
I must seek him whom my soul loves.’
I sought him but I did not find him.
Song of Songs 3:3 (show verse)
“The watchmen who go around the city found me,
And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
Song of Songs 3:4 (show verse)
“Scarcely had I passed them
When I found him whom my soul loves.
I held on to him and would not let him go
Until I had brought him to my mother’s house,
And into the chamber of her who conceived me.”
Song of Songs 3:5 (show verse)
(The Bridegroom)
“I command that you take an oath, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the gazelles or by the does of the field,
That you do not rouse nor awaken my love
Until she pleases.”
“I command that you take an oath, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the gazelles or by the does of the field,
That you do not rouse nor awaken my love
Until she pleases.”
No Themes for this verse.
Song of Songs 3:6 (show verse)
(The Shulammite Bride)
“What is this coming up from the wilderness
Like [stately] pillars of smoke
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
With all the fragrant powders of the merchant?”
“What is this coming up from the wilderness
Like [stately] pillars of smoke
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
With all the fragrant powders of the merchant?”
Song of Songs 3:7 (show verse)
(The Chorus)
“Behold, it is the couch (palanquin) of Solomon;
Sixty mighty men around it,
Of the mighty men of Israel.
“Behold, it is the couch (
Sixty mighty men around it,
Of the mighty men of Israel.
Song of Songs 3:8 (show verse)
“All of them handle the sword,
All expert in war;
Each man has his sword at his thigh,
Guarding against the terrors of the night.
Song of Songs 3:9 (show verse)
“King Solomon has made for himself a palanquin
From the [cedar] wood of Lebanon.
Song of Songs 3:10 (show verse)
“He made its posts of silver,
Its back of gold,
Its seat of purple cloth,
The interior lovingly and intricately wrought
By the daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Songs 3:11 (show verse)
“Go forth, O daughters of Zion,
And gaze on King Solomon wearing the crown
With which his mother [Bathsheba] has crowned him
On the day of his wedding,
On the day of his gladness of heart.”