3 The watchmen making their rounds in the city found me.⌊I asked,⌋ “Have you seen the one I love?”
4 I had just left them when I found the one I love.I held on to him and would not let him gountil I had brought him into my mother’s house,into the bedroom of the one who conceived me.
5 Young women of Jerusalem, swear to meby the gazellesor by the does in the field,that you will not awaken loveor arouse love before its proper time.
6 Who is this young woman coming up from the wildernesslike clouds of smoke?She is perfumed with myrrh and incensemade from the merchants’ scented powders.
7 Look! Solomon’s sedan chair! Sixty soldiers from the army of Israel surround it.
8 All of them are skilled in using swords,experienced in combat.Each one has his sword at his sideand guards against the terrors of the night.
9 King Solomon had a carriage made for himself from the wood of Lebanon.