Song of Solomon 3:1-5

The Bride’s Dream

1 On my bed ¹by night I sought ²him whom my soul loves; ³I sought him, but found him not.

2 I will rise now and go about the city, in ⁴the streets and in the squares; I will seek ⁵him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but found him not.

3 ⁶The watchmen found me as they went about in the city. “Have you seen him whom my soul loves? ”

4 Scarcely had I passed them when I found ⁷him whom my soul loves. I ⁸held him, and would not let him go until I had ⁹brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of ¹⁰her who conceived me.

5 ¹¹I adjure you, ¹²O daughters of Jerusalem, ¹³by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Song of Solomon 3:1-5 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.

Cross References

• 1. 3:1 Isa. 26:9
• 2. 3:1 ch. 1:7
• 3. 3:1 ch. 5:6; [John 7:34]
• 4. 3:2 Jer. 5:1
• 5. 3:2 [See ver. 1 above]
• 6. 3:3 ch. 5:7
• 7. 3:4 [See ver. 1 above]
• 8. 3:4 [Job 27:6]
• 9. 3:4 ch. 8:2
• 10. 3:4 [Hos. 2:5]
• 11. 3:5 See ch. 2:7
• 12. 3:5 See ch. 1:5
• 13. 3:5 See ch. 2:9