Song of Solomon 3:1-9

1 At night on my bed, I looked for the one I love; I looked for him, but I could not find him.

2 I got up and went around the city, in the streets and squares, looking for the one I love. I looked for him, but I could not find him.

3 The watchmen found me as they patrolled the city, so I asked, "Have you seen the one I love?"

4 As soon as I had left them, I found the one I love. I held him and would not let him go until I brought him to my mother's house, to the room where I was born.

5 Women of Jerusalem, promise me by the gazelles and the deer not to awaken or excite my feelings of love until it is ready.

6 Who is this coming out of the desert like a cloud of smoke? Who is this that smells like myrrh, incense, and other spices?

7 Look, it's Solomon's couchn with sixty soldiers around it, the finest soldiers of Israel.

8 These soldiers all carry swords and have been trained in war. Every man wears a sword at his side and is ready for the dangers of the night.

9 King Solomon had a couch made for himself of wood from Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 3:1-9 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.