Song of Solomon 3:2-11 ▼

2 Now I will rise and go about the city, in the streets and in the broad places; I will seek the one whom my soul loves. I sought him, and I did not find him.

3 The guards found me in their going round about the city. “The one my soul loves, have you? seen him?”

4 Scarcely had I passed by them when I found the one my soul loves; I held him, and I would not let him go, until I had brought him to the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

5 I adjure you?, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not arouse or awaken love, until it pleases.

6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness, like pillars of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

7 Behold, it is the couch of Solomon! Sixty mighty men are around it, the mighty ones of Israel.

8 All of them are grasping a sword, studied in warfare; each man has his sword upon his thigh, against the dread in the nights.

9 King Solomon has made a carriage for himself from the trees of the Lebanon.

10 Its pillars He has made of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its midst is inlaid with love, by the daughters of Jerusalem.

11 Go forth and gaze, O daughters of Zion, at King Solomon, at the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, and on the day of the joy of his heart.