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Song of Solomon 3

1

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I didn't find him.

2

I said, I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I didn't find him.

3

The watchmen who go about the city found me; To whom I said, Saw you him whom my soul loves?

4

It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, Into the chamber of her who conceived me.

5

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That you not stir up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

6

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?

7

Behold, it is the litter of Solomon; Sixty mighty men are about it, Of the mighty men of Israel.

8

They all handle the sword, and are expert in war: Every man has his sword on his thigh, Because of fear in the night.

9

King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.

10

He made the pillars of it of silver, The bottom of it of gold, the seat of it of purple, The midst of it being paved with love, From the daughters of Jerusalem.

11

Go forth, O you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, With the crown wherewith his mother has crowned him In the day of his weddings, In the day of the gladness of his heart.



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