1The church's fight and victory in temptation. 6The church glorieth in Christ.
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1By 1night on my bed I sought 2him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but 3I found him not.
21I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: 2I sought him, but I found him not.
3The 1watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, 2Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
41It was but a little that I passed from them, but 2I found him whom my soul loveth: I 3held him, and would not let him go, until I 4had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that 5conceived me.
51I charge you, 2O 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¶ 1Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness 2like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
71Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore 2valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
8They all 1hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because 2of fear in the night.
9King Solomon made 1himself a achariot of the wood of Lebanon.
10He 1made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for 2the daughters of Jerusalem.
111Go forth, O 2ye daughters of Zion, and behold 3king Solomon with the crown 4wherewith his mother 5crowned him in the 6day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.