3 The watchmen found meas they made their rounds in the city.‘Have you seen the one my heart loves?’
4 Scarcely had I passed themwhen I found the one my heart loves.I held him and would not let him gotill I had brought him to my mother’s house,to the room of the one who conceived me.
5 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge youby the gazelles and by the does of the field:do not arouse or awaken loveuntil it so desires.
6 Who is this coming up from the wildernesslike a column of smoke,perfumed with myrrh and incensemade from all the spices of the merchant?
7 Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,escorted by sixty warriors,the noblest of Israel,
8 all of them wearing the sword,all experienced in battle,each with his sword at his side,prepared for the terrors of the night.
9 King Solomon made for himself the carriage;he made it of wood from Lebanon.