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I called him, but he hearkened not to me.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the market-places, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. <i>I said</i>, Have ye seen him whom my soul loves?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><i>It was</i> as a little <i>while</i> after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into 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 charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye rouse not nor awake <i>my</i> love, until he please.<p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Day<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold Solomon's bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every man <i>has</i> his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He made the pillars of it silver, the bottom of it gold, the covering of it scarlet, in the midst of it a pavement of love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, 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.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../songs/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../songs/4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Song of Solomon 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>