1Bride: On my bed, throughout the night, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him.

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1 Peter 1:8, 1 Peter 1:8, Song of Solomon 5:6, Song of Solomon 1:7, Song of Solomon 5:6

2I will rise up, and I will circle through the city. Through the side streets and thoroughfares, I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him.

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Romans 13:11, Psalms 43:2, Psalms 43:5, Proverbs 8:2, Proverbs 8:3

3The watchers who guard the city found me: “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

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Song of Solomon 5:7, Song of Solomon 5:7, Isaiah 21:6, Isaiah 21:8, Isaiah 21:11

4When I had passed by them a little, I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not release him, until I would bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who bore me.

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Proverbs 4:13, Proverbs 8:17, Song of Solomon 8:2, Proverbs 4:13, Proverbs 8:17

5Groom to Chorus: I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the does and the stags of the open field, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills.

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Song of Solomon 2:7, Song of Solomon 2:7, Song of Solomon 8:4, Song of Solomon 8:4, Micah 4:8

6Chorus to Groom: Who is she, who ascends through the desert, like a staff of smoke from the aromatics of myrrh, and frankincense, and every powder of the perfumer?

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Song of Solomon 8:5, Song of Solomon 8:5, Song of Solomon 4:6, Song of Solomon 1:13, Song of Solomon 4:6

7Chorus to Bride: Lo, sixty strong ones, out of all the strongest in Israel, stand watch at the bed of Solomon,

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Hebrews 1:14, 1 Samuel 28:2, Song of Solomon 1:16, 1 Samuel 14:52, 1 Samuel 8:16

8all holding swords and well-trained in warfare, each one’s weapon upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.

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Psalms 45:3, Psalms 45:3, Ephesians 6:16, Ephesians 6:18, Psalms 149:5

9Bride to Chorus: King Solomon made himself a portable throne from the wood of Lebanon.

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Song of Solomon 3:7, Song of Solomon 3:7, Revelation 14:6, 2 Samuel 23:5, Revelation 14:6

10He made its columns of silver, the reclining place of gold, the ascent of purple; the middle he covered well, out of charity for the daughters of Jerusalem.

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Psalms 87:3, 1 Timothy 3:15, 1 Timothy 3:16, Romans 5:8, Revelation 3:12

11O daughters of Zion, go forth and see king Solomon with the diadem with which his mother crowned him, on the day of his espousal, on the day of the rejoicing of his heart.

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Isaiah 62:5, Isaiah 62:5, Jeremiah 2:2, Hosea 2:19, Hosea 2:20