Song 3 | EngLXX | STEP | By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I calledhim, but he hearkened not to me.

Song of Solomon 3

1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I calledhim, but he hearkened not to me. 2 I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the marketplaces, and in the streets, andI will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me.I said, Have you⌃ seen him whom my soul loves? 4 It was as a littlewhile after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did notlet him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 5 I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of thefield, that you⌃ rouse not nor awakemy love, until he please. 6 Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrhand frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer? 7 Behold Solomon's bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it. 8 They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every manhas his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night. 9 King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon. 10 He made the pillars of it silver, the bottom of it gold, the covering of it scarlet,in the midst of it a pavement of love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. 11 Go forth, you⌃ daughters of Sion, and behold king Solomon, with the crown wherewith hismother crowned him, in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.