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Song of Solomon 3

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1 At night on my bed, I looked for the one I love; I looked for him, but I could not find him.
1 All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him.
2 I got up and went around the city, in the streets and squares, looking for the one I love. I looked for him, but I could not find him.
2 I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him.
3 The watchmen found me as they patrolled the city, so I asked, "Have you seen the one I love?"
3 The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”
4 As soon as I had left them, I found the one I love. I held him and would not let him go until I brought him to my mother's house, to the room where I was born.
4 Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.
5 Women of Jerusalem, promise me by the gazelles and the deer not to awaken or excite my feelings of love until it is ready.
5 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
6 Who is this coming out of the desert like a cloud of smoke? Who is this that smells like myrrh, incense, and other spices?
6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant?
7 Look, it's Solomon's couchn with sixty soldiers around it, the finest soldiers of Israel.
7 Look! It is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty warriors, the noblest of Israel,
8 These soldiers all carry swords and have been trained in war. Every man wears a sword at his side and is ready for the dangers of the night.
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 had a couch made for himself of wood from Lebanon.
9 King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of wood from Lebanon.
10 He made its posts of silver and its braces of gold. The seat was covered with purple cloth that the women of Jerusalem wove with love.
10 Its posts he made of silver, its base of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple, its interior inlaid with love. Daughters of Jerusalem,
11 Women of Jerusalem, go out and see King Solomon. He is wearing the crown his mother put on his head on his wedding day, when his heart was happy!
11 come out, and look, you daughters of Zion. Look on King Solomon wearing a crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.
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