The Song of Songs

By night on my bed I sought [Him] whom my soul loves. I sought Him, but I did not find Him.

I will rise now and go about in the city, in the streets and in the broad places. I will seek [Him] whom my soul loves. I sought Him, but I did not find Him.

The watchmen going about in the city found me. [I said], Have you seen [Him] my soul loves?

When I had passed on from them, [it was] a little while until I found [Him] whom my soul loves. I seized Him, and I did not let Him go until I had brought Him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who conceived me.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, that you do not stir up, even that you not stir up the Beloved until it pleases.

Who [is] this who comes up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, burned with myrrh and frankincense, from all powders of the merchant?

Behold his bed, Solomon's! Sixty mighty men [are] around it, of the mighty men of Israel.

They all hold the sword, instructed in war; each man has his sword on his thigh from dread in the night.

King Solomon made himself a litter bed of the trees of Lebanon.

He made its poles [of] silver; its back [of] gold; its seat [of] purple; its middle was paved [with] love by the daughters of Jerusalem.

Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon with the crown [with] which his mother crowned him on his wedding day, even on the day of the gladness of his heart.