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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 get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
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The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
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I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
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I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
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Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?
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Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.
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They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.
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