Song of Solomon, 3

1. By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

1. On my bed at night I looked for the one I love, I sought him without finding him;

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.

2. I will rise and go about the city, through the streets and the squares; I will seek the love of my heart...

3. The watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

3. I sought him without finding him; the watchmen came upon me, those who patrol the city. "Have you seen the love of my heart?"

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.

4. As soon as I left them, I found the love of my heart. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother's house to the room of her who 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.

5. I beg you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and hinds of the field, not to arouse or stir up love before her time has come.

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?

6. Who is this coming from the wilderness? There seems to be a pillar of smoke, with fumes of myrrh and frankincense.

7. Behold his bed, which [is] Solomon's; threescore valiant men [are] about it, of the valiant of Israel.

7. Look, it is Solomon's carriage! sixty warriors escort him, the strongest 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.

8. all girded with swords, all seasoned in battle; each is ready with sword at his side, each prepared for the terrors of the night.

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

9. King Solomon has made for himself a carriage of wood from 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.

10. its columns of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple cloth, its framework inlaid with ivory.

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.

11. Come, daughters of Zion, see King Solomon wearing the diadem with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day his heart rejoiced.