03:001

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth; I sought him, but I found him not

03:002

'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

03:003

The watchmen that go about the city found me: 'Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

03:004

Scarce had I passed from them, when 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

03:005

'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.

03:006

Who is this that cometh up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant

03:007

Behold, it is the litter of Solomon; threescore mighty men are about it, of the mighty men of Israel

03:008

They all handle the sword, and are expert in war; every man hath his sword upon his thigh, because of dread in the night

03:009

King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon

03:010

He made the pillars thereof of silver, the top thereof of gold, the seat of it of purple, the inside thereof being inlaid with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem

03:011

Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and gaze upon king Solomon, even upon the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart