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A Plea for Undisturbed Love
Song of Solomon 3:5
Showing verse 5 with surrounding context.
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I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
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I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
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I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
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O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
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Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
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Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.
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All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of the night.
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