Song of Solomon 3

3^aBy night on my bed I sought ^bhim whom my soul loveth:

^cI sought him, but I found him not.

²I will rise now, and go about the city

In the ^dstreets, and ^ein the broad ways

I will seek ^bhim whom my soul loveth:

^cI sought him, but I found him not.

^3fThe watchmen that go about the city found me:

^gTo whom I said, Saw ye ^bhim whom my soul loveth?

⁴It was but a little that I passed from them,

But I found ^bhim whom my soul loveth:

I ^hheld him, and would not ^hilet him go,

Until I had ^jbrought him into my mother’s house,

And into the chamber of ^kher that conceived me.

^5lI charge you, ^mO 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.

⁶ⁿWho is ^othis that cometh out of the wilderness like ^ppillars of smoke,

Perfumed with ^qmyrrh and frankincense,

With all powders of the ^rmerchant?

⁷Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s;

^sThreescore valiant men are about it,

Of the valiant of Israel.

⁸They all hold swords, being expert in war:

Every man hath ^this sword upon his thigh ^ubecause of fear ^ain the night.

⁹King Solomon made himself ^||a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

¹⁰He 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 ^wthe daughters of Jerusalem.

¹¹Go forth, O ye daughters of ^xZion, and behold king Solomon

With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him

^yIn the day of his espousals,

And ^yin the day of the gladness of his heart.