Song of Solomon 3

1 On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.

In my bed by night I sought him that my soule loued: I sought him, but I found him not.

2 I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.

I will rise therefore nowe, and goe about in the citie, by the streetes and by the open places, and wil seeke him that my soule loueth: I sought him, but I found him not.

3 I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”

The watchmen that went about the citie, found mee: to whome I said, Haue you seene him, whome my soule loueth?

4 I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.

When I had past a litle from them, then I found him whom my soule loued: I tooke holde on him and left him not, till I had brought him vnto my mothers house into the chamber of her that conceiued me.

5 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, by the roes and by the hindes of the fielde, that ye stirre not vp, nor waken my loue vntill she please.

6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?

Who is shee that commeth vp out of the wildernes like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrhe and incense, and with all the spices of the marchant?

7 Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.

Beholde his bed, which is Salomons: threescore strong men are round about it, of the valiant men of Israel.

8 All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of the night.

They all handle the sworde, and are expert in warre, euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh for the feare by night.

9 King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon.

King Salomon made himselfe a palace of the trees of Lebanon.

10 He has made its posts of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple fabric. Its interior is inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.

Hee made the pillars thereof of siluer, and the pauement thereof of gold, the hangings thereof of purple, whose middes was paued with the loue of the daughters of Ierusalem.

11 Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother bestowed on the day of his wedding— the day of his heart’s rejoicing.

Come forth, ye daughters of Zion, and behold the King Salomon with the crowne, wherewith his mother crowned him in ye day of his mariage, and in the day of the gladnes of his heart.