Chapter 3
1 By night on my bed , I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him , but I didn’t find him .
2 I will get up 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 I didn’t find him .
3 The watchmen who go about the city found me ; " Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"
4 I had scarcely passed from 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 , into the room of her who conceived me .
5 I adjure you , daughters of Jerusalem , by the roes , or by the hinds of the field , that you not stir up nor awaken love , until it so desires .
6 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke , perfumed with myrrh and frankincense , with all spices of the merchant ?
7 Behold , it is Solomon ’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it , of the mighty men of Israel .
8 They all handle the sword , and are expert in war . Every man has his sword on his thigh , because of fear in the night .
9 King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon .
10 He made its pillars of silver , its bottom of gold , its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem .
11 Go out , you daughters of Zion , and see King Solomon , with the crown with which his mother has crowned him , in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart .