Song of Solomon 3

Revised Geneva Translation

3 “In my bed at night I sought him whom my soul loved. I sought him, but I did not find him.

² “I will rise now and go around in the city, by the streets, and by the open places, and will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

³ “The watchmen who went around the city found me. I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’

⁴ “When I had passed a little from them, then I found him whom my soul loved. I took hold of him and did not leave him until I had brought him to my mother’s house, into her chamber who had conceived me.

⁵ “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and by the does of the field, that you neither stir up nor awaken my love until she pleases.

⁶ “Who is she who comes up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense, and with all the spices of the merchant?

⁷ “Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s! Sixty strong men of the valiant men of Israel are all around it.

⁸ “They all handle the sword and are expert in war. Everyone has his sword upon his thigh for the fear at night.

⁹ “King Solomon made himself a palace from the trees of Lebanon.

¹⁰ He made its pillars of silver, its pavement of gold, and its hangings of purple, whose midst was paved with the love of the daughters of Jerusalem.

¹¹ “Come forth, you daughters of Zion, and behold the king, Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his marriage, and on the day of the gladness of his heart!”