By night
on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I
sought him, but I found him not.
02 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 The watchmen that go about the city found me:
to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
04 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.
05 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.
06 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness
like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and
frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
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07 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore
valiant men are about it, of the valiant of
Israel.
08 They all hold swords, being expert in war:
every man hath his sword upon his thigh because
of fear in the night.
09 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.
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