Song of Solomon 3:3

The watchmen For the practice of having watchmen in cities, cp. Psalms 127:1, "Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." Grätz supposes that the mention of watchmen favours his very late date for the book. But probably this very obvious precaution was taken in Palestine from the earliest times, and in any case the passage quoted above shews that it was an established custom comparatively early. Cp. also Isaiah 21:11.

Saw ye, &c. The A.V. rightly inserts to whom I said, but in the Heb. her dream-question is introduced with the same vivid abruptness as her previous utterance, Come let me arise, and without any interrogative particle. She also, as we all do in dreams, takes it for granted that all men know what the object of her preoccupation is. It would however be possible to translate ye have seenin the sense ye must have seen.