Song of Songs 3 Upon my bed in the night I sought him whom my soul loved: I sought him, and I found him not

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Upon my bed in the night I sought him whom my soul loved: I sought him, and I found him not ² I will arise now, and I will go round about in the city; in the streets, and in the broad places I will seek him whom my soul loved. I sought him, and I found him not ³ They watching going about in the city, found me: Saw ye him that my soul loved? ⁴ As a little I passed from them till I found him my soul loved: I held him fast, and I shall not let him go till I brought him into my mother's house, and to the chamber of her conceiving me. ⁵ I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, if ye shall awake and if ye shall arouse love till he shall desire. ⁶ Who is this coming up from the desert as columns of smoke of burning incense, of myrrh and frankincense from all the powder of the trader. ⁷ Behold his bed of Solomon: sixty strong ones round about it from the strong ones of Israel. ⁸ All of them holding the sword, being trained to war: each his sword upon his thigh from terror in the night ⁹ King Solomon made for himself a litter from the woods of Lebanon. ¹⁰ Its pillars he made silver, its support gold, its seat reddish purple, its midst tesselated with love from the daughters of Jerusalem. ¹¹ Go forth, ye daughters of Zion, and look upon king Solomon; upon the crown his mother crowned to him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart