I Sought Him Whom My Soul Loveth - Song of Solomon 3

Verse

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth

I sought him, but I found him not

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets,

and in the broad ways I will seek him

whom my soul loveth

Chorus

I sought him, but I found him not

Verse

The watchmen that go about the city found me

to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

It was but a little that I passed from them

but I found him whom my soul loveth

I held him, and would not let him go

Chorus

until I had brought him into my mother's house

and into the chamber of her that conceived me

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

Verse

Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness

like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

Behold his bed, which is Solomon's

threescore valiant men are about it

of the valiant of Israel

Verse

They all hold swords, being expert in war

every man hath his sword upon his thigh

because of fear in the night

King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon

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

Chorus

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