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Song of Solomon 3
Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he hearkened not to me.
On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the market-places, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
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.
The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. [I said], Have ye seen him whom my soul loves?
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
[It was] as a little [while] after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
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.
I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye rouse not nor awake [my] love, until he please.
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.
Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?
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?
Behold Solomon's bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.
Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage (note: That is, the couch on which servants carry a king), escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.
They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every man [has] his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night.
All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of the night.
King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.
King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon.
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.
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.
Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, 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.
Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing.