The Bride’s Dream
1 On my bed Isa. 26:9by night
I sought ch. 1:7him whom my soul loves;
ch. 5:6;[John 7:34]I sought him, but found him not.
2 I will rise now and go about the city,
in Jer. 5:1the streets and in the squares;
I will seek [See ver. 1above]him whom my soul loves.
I sought him, but found him not.
3 ch. 5:7The 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 [See ver. 1above] him whom my soul loves.
I [Job 27:6] held him, and would not let him go
until I had ch. 8:2brought him into my mother’s house,
and into the chamber of [Hos. 2:5]her who conceived me.
5 See ch. 2:7I adjure you, See ch. 1:5O daughters of Jerusalem,
See ch. 2:9by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
Solomon Arrives for the Wedding
6 ch. 8:5;[ch. 6:10;Isa. 60:8] What is that coming up from the wilderness
like Ex. 13:21;Joel 2:30columns of smoke,
perfumed with ch. 4:6,14;Matt. 2:11;John 19:39myrrh and frankincense,
with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?
7 Behold, it is the litter3:7 That is, the couch on which servants carry a king of Solomon!
Around it are ch. 6:8sixty 2 Sam. 23:8;1 Chr. 11:10mighty men,
some of the mighty men of Israel,
8 all of them wearing swords
and expert in war,
each with his Ps. 45:3sword at his thigh,
against Ps. 91:5terror by night.
9 King Solomon made himself a carriage3:9 Or sedan chair
from the wood of Lebanon.
10 He made its posts of silver,
its back of gold, its seat of purple;
its interior was inlaid with love
by See ch. 1:5the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go out, O Isa. 3:16,17;4:4daughters of Zion,
and look upon King Solomon,
with the crown with which his mother crowned him
on [Isa. 62:5]the day of his wedding,
on the day of the gladness of his heart.
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