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1 In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not.
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Upon my bed at night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.
2 I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not.
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"I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves." I sought him, but found him not.
3 The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?
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The sentinels found me, as they went about in the city. "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"
4 When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.
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Scarcely had I passed them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.
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I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the wild does: do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready!
6 Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer?
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What is that coming up from the wilderness, like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
7 Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon?
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Look, it is the litter of Solomon! Around it are sixty mighty men of the mighty men of Israel,
8 All holding swords, and most expert in war: every man’s sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.
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all equipped with swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh because of alarms by night.
9 King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus:
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King Solomon made himself a palanquin from the wood of Lebanon.
10 The pillars thereof he made of silver, the seat of gold, the going up of purple: the midst he covered with charity for the daughters of Jerusalem.
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He made its posts of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its interior was inlaid with love. Daughters of Jerusalem,
11 Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the diadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of the joy of his heart.
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come out. Look, O daughters of Zion, at King Solomon, at the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.
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