Song of Solomon 3:5-7

New Century Version

⁵ Women of Jerusalem, promise me
    by the gazelles and the deer
not to awaken
    or excite my feelings of love
    until it is ready.
⁶ Who is this coming out of the desert
    like a cloud of smoke?
Who is this that smells like myrrh, incense,
    and other spices?
⁷ Look, it’s Solomon’s couch^[a]
    with sixty soldiers around it,
    the finest soldiers of Israel.