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### Song of Solomon 3
1 BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not. ^1
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 loves: I sought him, but I found him not. ^2
3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: _to_ _whom_ _I_ _said_, Saw ye him whom my soul loves? ^3
4 _It_ _was_ but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loves: 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
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
6 ΒΆ Who _is_ this that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? ^6
7 Behold his bed, which _is_ Solomon's; sixty valiant men _are_ about it, of the valiant of Israel. ^7
8 They all hold swords, _being_ expert in war: every man _hath_ his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. ^8
9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. ^9
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
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