3 The guards found me,those who make their rounds in the city."The one whom I love with all my heart—have you seen him?"
4 No sooner did I depart from themthan I found the one whom I love with all my heart.I held on to him and now I won’t let him go,until I’ve brought him to my mother’s house,to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
5 I place you under oath, daughters of Jerusalem,by the gazelles or the wild deer:don’t rouse, don’t arouse loveuntil it desires.
6 Who is this, coming up from the wilderness,like pillars of smoke?She is perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,selected from all the spice merchant’s powders.
7 Picture Solomon’s bed—sixty heroic men round about it,all from the heroes of Israel,
8 all of them skilled with the sword,expert in warfare,each with his sword ready at his thighagainst terrors that come by night.
9 King Solomon made a canopied couch for himselffrom the trees of Lebanon.