SOS-3:1  By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I

sought him,

but I found him not.

SOS-3:2  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.

SOS-3:3  The watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom

I said], Saw

ye him whom my soul loveth?

SOS-3:4  [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.

SOS-3:5  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.

SOS-3:6  Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like

pillars of

smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of

the merchant?

SOS-3:7  Behold his bed, which [is] Solomon's; threescore

valiant men [are]

about it, of the valiant of Israel.

SOS-3:8  They all hold swords, [being] expert in war: every man

[hath] his

sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

SOS-3:9  King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of

Lebanon.

SOS-3:10  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.

SOS-3:11  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.

~~~~~~