The Song of Solomon 3

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1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth I sought him but I found him not ⚑

2 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 I sought him but I found him not ⚑

3 The watchmen that go about the city found me to whom I said Saw ye him whom my soul loveth ⚑

4 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 until I had brought him into my other’s house and into the chamber of her that conceived me ⚑

5 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 ⚑

6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrh and frankincense with all powders of the merchant ⚑

7 Behold his bed which is lomon’s threescore valiant men are about it of the valiant of Israel ⚑

8 They all hold swords being expert in war every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night ⚑

9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon ⚑

10 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 ⚑

11 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 ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain