By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth:… By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not 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. The watchmen that go about the city found me: {to whom I said}, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? {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. 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. Who {is} this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? Behold his bed, which {is} Solomon's; threescore valiant men {are} about it, of the valiant of Israel. They all hold swords, {being} expert in war: every man {hath} his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. {a chariot: or, a bed} 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.