S.S. 3
:1
3:1
On my bed night after night
I
1sought ahim whom my soul loves;
I sought him, but found him not.
E.
The lover's waking up and recovery
3:2-4
S.S. 3
:2
3:2
I will
1arise now and go about in the city;
In the streets and in the squares
I will seek him whom my soul loves.
I sought him, but found him not.
S.S. 3
:3
3:3
The 1awatchmen who go about in the city found me —
Have you seen him whom my soul loves?
S.S. 3
:4
3:4
Scarcely had I passed them
When I found him whom my soul loves;
I held him and would not let go
Until I had brought him into my
1mother’s house
And into the
1chamber of her who conceived me.
F.
Christ's charge to the meddling believers
3:5
S.S. 3
:5
3:5
aI 1adjure you, O
bdaughters of Jerusalem,
By the gazelles or by the hinds of the fields,
Not to rouse up or awaken
my love
Until she pleases.
III.
Called to live in ascension as the new creation in resurrection
3:6—5:1
A.
The new creation
3:6—4:6
1.
By the lover's complete union with Christ
3:6-11
S.S. 3
:6
3:6
1Who is
2she who comes up from the
awilderness Like
bpillars of smoke,
Perfumed with
cmyrrh and frankincense,
With all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
S.S. 3
:7
3:7
There is Solomon’s
1bed;
Sixty mighty men surround it,
Of the mighty men of Israel.
S.S. 3
:8
3:8
All of them wield the sword
and are expert in war;
Each man has his sword at his thigh
Because of the night alarms.
S.S. 3
:9
3:9
King Solomon made himself a
1palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.
S.S. 3
:10
3:10
Its posts he made of silver,
Its bottom, of gold;
Its seat, of purple;
Its midst was inlaid
with love
From the
adaughters of Jerusalem.
S.S. 3
:11
3:11
Go forth, O
adaughters of Zion,
And
1look at King Solomon with the
2crown With which his mother crowned him
On the day of his
3espousals,
Yes, on the day of the gladness of his heart.
