3Song of Songs 3

1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.Select Song of Songs 3:1

2I 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 found him not.Select Song of Songs 3:2

3The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw you him whom my soul loves?Select Song of Songs 3:3

4It was but a little that I passed from them, but 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, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.Select Song of Songs 3:4

5I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that you stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. ¶Select Song of Songs 3:5

6Who is this that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?Select Song of Songs 3:6

7Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; three score valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.Select Song of Songs 3:7

8They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man has his sword on his thigh because of fear in the night.Select Song of Songs 3:8

9King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.Select Song of Songs 3:9

10He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the middle thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.Select Song of Songs 3:10

11Go forth, O you daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.Select Song of Songs 3:11