Song of Solomon 3:1-5

A Dream of Love. The adjuration Song of Solomon 3:5 (cf. Song of Solomon 2:7) may have been added to adapt the passionate poem to the wedding week, in which there was much noisy revelling. For another song with similar motive cf. Song of Solomon 5:2 ff. The bride tells a dream which came to her, night after night, and was a reflection of the love that moved her spirit in its waking hours. It is the story of the oft-repeated and at last successful search for him who was the object of her love, till they were happy in her mother's home. The city may be any town or village; the broad ways are the open spaces in contrast to the narrow lanes. watchmen (cf. Psalms 127:1; Isaiah 21:11).