Song of Solomon 3

S. S. 3:1	On my bed night after night / I sought him whom my soul loves; / I sought him, but found him not.
S. S. 3:2	I will rise now and go about in the city; / In the streets and in the squares / I will seek him whom my soul loves. / I sought him, but found him not.
S. S. 3:3	The watchmen who go about in the city found me-- / Have you seen him whom my soul loves?
S. S. 3:4	Scarcely had I passed them / When I found him whom my soul loves; / I held him and would not let go / Until I had brought him into my mother's house / And into the chamber of her who conceived me.
S. S. 3:5	I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, / By the gazelles or by the hinds of the fields, / Not to rouse up or awaken [my] love / Until she pleases.
S. S. 3:6	Who is she who comes up from the wilderness / Like pillars of smoke, / Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, / With all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
S. S. 3:7	There is Solomon's bed; / Sixty mighty men surround it, / Of the mighty men of Israel.
S. S. 3:8	All of them wield the sword [and] are expert in war; / Each man has his sword at his thigh / Because of the night alarms.
S. S. 3:9	King Solomon made himself a palanquin / Of the wood of Lebanon.
S. S. 3:10	Its posts he made of silver; / Its bottom, of gold; / Its seat, of purple; / Its midst was inlaid [with] love / From the daughters of Jerusalem.
S. S. 3:11	Go forth, O daughters of Zion, / And look at King Solomon with the crown / With which his mother crowned him / On the day of his espousals, / Yes, on the day of the gladness of his heart.