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I longed for him but he never appeared. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"I will arise and look all around throughout the town, and throughout the streets and squares; I will search for my beloved." I searched for him but I did not find him. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The night watchmen found me--the ones who guard the city walls. "Have you seen my beloved?" <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The watchmen found me as they went about in the city. “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Scarcely had I passed them by when I found my beloved! I held onto him tightly and would not let him go until I brought him to my mother's house, to the bedroom chamber of the one who conceived me. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. 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 who conceived me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and by the young does of the open fields: "Do not awake or arouse love until it pleases!" <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, like a fragrant billow of myrrh and frankincense, every kind of fragrant powder of the traveling merchants? <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">What is that coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Look! It is Solomon's portable couch! It is surrounded by sixty warriors, some of Israel's mightiest warriors. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, it is the litter of Solomon! Around it are sixty mighty men, some of the mighty men of Israel,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">All of them are skilled with a sword, well-trained in the art of warfare. Each has his sword at his side, to guard against the terrors of the night. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">all of them wearing swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh, against terror by night.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">King Solomon made a sedan chair for himself of wood imported from Lebanon. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">King Solomon made himself a carriage from the wood of Lebanon.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Its posts were made of silver; its back was made of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple wool; its interior was inlaid with leather by the maidens of Jerusalem. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He made its posts of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its interior was inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Come out, O maidens of Zion, and gaze upon King Solomon! 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