Song of Solomon 3
1. By night on my bed I sought * him whom my soul loveth * : I sought * him, but I found * him not.
2. I will rise * now, and go about * the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek * him whom my soul loveth * : I sought * him, but I found * him not.
3. The watchmen * that go about * the city found * me: to whom I said, Saw * ye him whom my soul loveth * ?
4. It was but a little that I passed * from them, but I found * him whom my soul loveth * : I held * him, and would not let him go * , until I had brought * him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived * me.
5. I charge * you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up * , nor awake * my love, till he please * .
6. Who is this that cometh * out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke,perfumed * with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant * ?
7. Behold his bed, which is Solomon's;threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
8. They all hold * swords, being expert * in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
9. King Solomon made * himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
10. He made * the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved * with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
11. Go forth * , O ye daughters of Zion, and behold * king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned * him in the day of his espousals,and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
