Song Of Solomon

Song Of Solomon 3

1The church's fight and victory in temptation. 6The church glorieth in Christ.


1BY anight on my bed I sought bhim whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but cI found him not.

a Is. 26.9. Ps. 63.6,7; 4.4; 22.2; 77.2-4. b ch. 1.2,7,16; 5.8. c Job 23.8,9.

2dI will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: eI sought him, but I found him not.

d ch. 5.5. Is. 64.7. Pr. 1.20,21; 8.3,34. Ps. 84.1,2,10. e Ps. 22.1,2; 10.1; 13.1-4; 42.9; 43.2.

3The fwatchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said , gSaw ye him whom my soul loveth?

f ch. 5.7. Is. 62.6. Eze. 3.17. He. 13.17. Je. 6.17. g Ac. 2.37; 16.30.

4hIt was but a little that I passed from them, but iI found him whom my soul loveth: I jheld him, and would not let him go, until I khad brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that lconceived me.

h ch. 6.12. La. 3.25. Pr. 8.17. Mat. 7.7. Ja. 4.8. i Is. 45.19. Je. 29.12,13. j Re. 3.11,12. Pr. 4.13. ch. 7.5. Ge. 32.26. Ho. 12.3,4. k Ps. 51.18; 122.6-9; 137.5,6. Je. 51.50. l Ro. 10.10,14-17. Ga. 4.19. 1Co. 4.15.

5mI charge you, nO ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

m ch. 2.7; 8.4,5. Mi. 4.8. n ch. 1.5.

6ΒΆoWho is this that cometh out of the wilderness plike pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and *frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

*frankincense-aromatic gum resin burned as a fragrant incense.

o De. 8.2. Is. 43.19. ch. 8.5. Ps. 43.3; 84.7. 1Jn. 5.4. Ga. 6.14. p Phi. 4.18. Re. 5.8. Col. 3.1. Phi. 3.20. Ep. 1.6. Ro. 12.1,2. 1Pe. 2.5. Joel 2.30.

7qBehold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore rvaliant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.

q ch. 1.16. Jn. 14.21,23. 1Jn. 1.3,7. r 2Ki. 6.17. He. 1.14. 1Co. 12.28.

8They all shold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because tof fear in the night.

s Ep. 6.17. Ps. 45.3. 2Co. 10.4. Ex. 32.27. t Is. 27.3. Ne. 4.22. Mat. 13.25. Ep. 6.12.

9King Solomon made uhimself a 1chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

1Or, bed, or litter, or throne, ch. 1.16. v.7. Re. 3.21.

u He. 2.14. Jn. 1.14. Ps. 89.3,4. Is. 53.10. Mar. 16.15. 1Co. 1.24. Mat. 16.18. Re. 14.6.

10He vmade the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for wthe daughters of Jerusalem.

v 1Ti. 3.16. Is. 9.6,7. 2Sa. 23.5. Col. 1.27. Ps. 87.3. Ep. 2.20-22. w ch. 1.5.

11xGo forth, O yye daughters of Zion, and behold zking Solomon with the crown awherewith his mother bcrowned him in the cday of his *espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

*espousals-wedding.

x ch. 4.8. Re. 22.17. 2Co. 5.20. y ch. 1.5; 2.7; 5.8. v.5. Ps. 48.11; 9.14. Is. 3.16,17; 4.4. z Mat. 12.42. Is. 9.6. He. 2.9. Phi. 2.9-11. a ch. 8.5. Mat. 12.50. Ga. 4.19. Col. 1.27. b Col. 1.18. Re. 1.5-7; 5.9. Phi. 3.8-10. c Jn. 3.29. Re. 21.9,10. Ps. 110.3. Eze. 16.6-14. Re. 11.15; 19.7. Is. 62.5; 53.11. Lu. 15.32.