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I sought him, and I did not find him.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The watchmen have found me "" (Who are going around the city), "" “Have you seen him whom my soul has loved?”<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But I passed on a little from them, "" Until I found him whom my soul has loved! I seized him, and did not let him go, "" Until I brought him to the house of my mother—And the chamber of her that conceived me.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, "" By the roes or by the does of the field, "" Do not stir up nor wake the love until she pleases!<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Who [is] this coming up from the wilderness, "" Like palm-trees of smoke, "" Perfumed [with] myrrh and frankincense, "" From every powder of the merchant?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, his couch, that [is] of Solomon, "" Sixty mighty ones [are] around it, "" Of the mighty of Israel,<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>All of them holding sword, taught of battle, "" Each his sword by his thigh, for fear at night.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>A palanquin King Solomon made for himself, "" Of the wood of Lebanon,<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Its pillars he made of silver, "" Its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, "" Its midst lined [with] love, "" By the daughters of Jerusalem.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Go forth, and look, you daughters of Zion, "" On King Solomon, with the crown, "" With which his mother crowned him, "" In the day of his espousals, "" And in the day of the joy of his heart!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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