Song of Solomon 3:1-8

1 Night after night on my bed I looked for the one I love. I looked for him but did not find him.

2 I will get up now and roam around the city, in the streets, and in the squares. I will look for the one I love. I looked for him but did not find him.

3 The watchmen making their rounds in the city found me. [I asked,] "Have you seen the one I love?"

4 I had just left them when I found the one I love. I held on to him and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the bedroom of the one who conceived me.

5 Young women of Jerusalem, swear to me by the gazelles or by the does in the field, that you will not awaken love or arouse love before its proper time.

6 Who is this young woman coming up from the wilderness like clouds of smoke? She is perfumed with myrrh and incense made from the merchants' scented powders.

7 Look! Solomon's sedan chair! Sixty soldiers from the army of Israel surround it.

8 All of them are skilled in using swords, experienced in combat. Each one has his sword at his side and guards against the terrors of the night.

Song of Solomon 3:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 3

In this chapter an account is given of an adventure of the church, in quest of her beloved; of the time when, and places where, and the persons of whom she sought him; and of her success upon the whole; with a charge she give to the daughters of Jerusalem, So 3:1-5; by whom she is commended, So 3:6; and then Christ, her beloved, is described by her; by his bed, and the guard about it, So 3:7,8; by the chariot he rode in, So 3:9,10; and by the crown he wore on his coronation day, So 3:11.