| English Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not. | 1On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him. |
| 2I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but found him not. | 2I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him. |
| 3The watchmen found me as they went about in the city. “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?” | 3I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?” |
| 4Scarcely had I passed 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, and into the chamber of her who conceived me. | 4I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me. |
| 5I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. | 5O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right. |
| 6What is that coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of a merchant? | 6Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant? |
| 7Behold, it is the litter of Solomon! Around it are sixty mighty men, some of the mighty men of Israel, | 7Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel. |
| 8all of them wearing swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh, against terror by night. | 8All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of the night. |
| 9King Solomon made himself a carriage from the wood of Lebanon. | 9King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon. |
| 10He made its posts of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its interior was inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem. | 10He has made its posts of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple fabric. Its interior is inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem. |
| 11Go out, O daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart. | 11Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother bestowed on the day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing. |
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