Song 3 | ABEn | STEP | Upon my bed in the nights I sought whom [ 2 loved 1 my soul]. I sought him, and I did not find him. I called unto him, and he did not hearken to me.

‏ Song of Solomon 3

CHAPTER 3 Love Seeking Her Lover

1 Upon my bed in the nights I sought whom [²loved ¹my soul]. I sought him, and I did not find him. I called unto him, and he did not hearken to me. 2 I shall rise up indeed, and I shall encircle in the city, in the markets, and in the squares, and I will seek whom [²loved ¹my soul]. I sought him, and I did not find him. 3 They found me, the ones keeping guard, the ones encircling in the city. [²not ³whom ⁵loved ⁴my soul ¹Saw they]? 4 It was a little time when I passed by them, until of which time I found whom [²loved ¹my soul]. I held him, and did not let go of him, until of which time I brought him into the house of my mother, and into the inner chamber of the one conceiving me. 5 I bound you by an oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the strengths of the field, if you should arise and awaken love until whenever it should want. 6 Who is she ascending from the wilderness as sticks of smoke, being of burning incense of myrrh and frankincense, from all the powders of the perfumer? 7 Behold, the bed of Solomon, sixty mighty men round about it, from among the mighty ones of Israel. 8 All holding a broadsword, being taught war; every man with his broadsword upon his thigh, because of consternation in the nights. 9 [⁴a carriage ³made ⁵for himself ¹King ²Solomon] from woods of Lebanon. 10 His columns he made of silver, and his couch of gold, his step purple; within it [²stone pavement ¹a love] from the daughters of Jerusalem. 11 Come forth and behold, daughters of Zion! unto king Solomon, unto the crown which [²crowned ³him ¹his mother] in the day of his betrothing, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.