Song 3 | ESV | STEP | On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves ; I sought him, but found him not .

1 On my bed ^aby night
I sought ^bhim whom my soul loves;
^cI sought him, but found him not.
2 I will rise now and go about the city,
in ^dthe streets and in the squares;
I will seek ^ehim whom my soul loves.
I sought him, but found him not.
3 ^fThe watchmen found me
as they went about in the city.
“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
4 Scarcely had I passed them
when I found ^ghim whom my soul loves.
I ^hheld him, and would not let him go
until I had ⁱbrought him into my mother’s house,
and into the chamber of ^jher who conceived me.
5 ^kI adjure you, ^lO daughters of Jerusalem,
^mby the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.

Solomon Arrives for the Wedding

6 ⁿWhat is that coming up from the wilderness
like ^ocolumns of smoke,
perfumed with ^pmyrrh and frankincense,
with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?
7 Behold, it is the litter ^{▼▼That is, the couch on which servants carry a king} of Solomon!
Around it are ^rsixty ^smighty men,
some of the mighty men of Israel,
8 all of them wearing swords
and expert in war,
each with his ^tsword at his thigh,
against ^uterror by night.
9 King Solomon made himself a carriage ^{▼▼Or sedan chair}
from the wood of Lebanon.
10 He made its posts of silver,
its back of gold, its seat of purple;
its interior was inlaid with love
by ^wthe daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go out, O ^xdaughters of Zion,
and look upon King Solomon,
with the crown with which his mother crowned him
on ^ythe day of his wedding,
on the day of the gladness of his heart.