Canticle of Canticles 3

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 On my bed at night I sought the man who is my sweetheart: I sought but could not find him!	1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
2 So I shal get up and go through the city; in the streets and in the squares, I shall seek my sweetheart. Isought but could not find him!	2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
3 I came upon the watchmen -- those who go on their rounds in the city: 'Have you seen my sweetheart?'	3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
4 Barely had I passed them when I found my sweetheart. I caught him, would not let him go, not til I hadbrought him to my mother's house, to the room where she conceived me!	4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
5 LOVER: I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, by gazel es and wild does, do not rouse, do not wake mybeloved before she pleases.	5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
6 POET: What is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, breathing of myrrh andfrankincense and every exotic perfume?	6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
7 Here comes Solomon's litter. Around it are sixty champions, the flower of the warriors of Israel;	7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
8 al of them skil ed swordsmen, expert in war. Each man has his sword at his side, against alarms bynight.	8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
9 King Solomon has had a palanquin made of wood from Lebanon.	9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
10 He has had the posts made of silver, the canopy of gold, the seat of purple; the centre is inlaid withebony.	10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Daughters of Zion, come and see King Solomon, wearing the diadem with which his mother crownedhim on his wedding day, on the day of his heart's joy.	11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.