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The Bride’s Troubled Dream
1 “1BRIDEOn my bed night after night I sought him
ASong 1:7Whom my soul loves;
I BSong 5:6sought him but did not find him.
In the AJer 5:1streets and in the squares
2Or Let me seekI must seek him whom my soul loves.’
I sought him but did not find him.
3 “ASong 5:7; Is 21:6-8, 11, 12The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me,
And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
When I found him whom my soul loves;
I BProv 4:13; Rom 8:35, 39held on to him and would not let him go
Until I had CSong 8:2brought him to my mother’s house,
And into the room of her who conceived me.”
By the BSong 2:7gazelles or by the hinds of the field,
That you will not arouse or awaken my love
Until 2Or itshe pleases.”
Solomon’s Wedding Day
Like BEx 13:21; Joel 2:30columns of smoke,
Perfumed with CSong 1:13; 4:6, 14; Matt 2:11myrrh and DEx 30:34; Rev 18:13frankincense,
With all scented powders of the merchant?
7 “Behold, it is the traveling couch of Solomon;
Sixty mighty men around it,
Of the mighty men of Israel.
8 “All of them are wielders of the sword,
AJer 50:9Expert in war;
Each man has his BPs 45:3sword at his side,
9 “King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair
From the timber of Lebanon.
10 “He made its posts of silver,
Its 1Or supportback of gold
And its seat of purple fabric,
With its interior lovingly fitted out
By the ASong 1:5daughters of Jerusalem.
11 “Go forth, O AIs 3:16, 17; 4:4daughters of Zion,
And gaze on King Solomon with the 1Or wreathcrown
With which his mother has crowned him
On the BIs 62:5day of his wedding,
And on the day of his gladness of heart.”