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Chapter 3 |
| 1 |
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found
him not. |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | The watchmen that go about the city
found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | Who is this that cometh out of the
wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with
all powders of the merchant? |
| 7
| Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about
it, of the valiant of Israel. |
| 8
| They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword
upon his thigh because of fear in the night. |
| 9 | 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. |
