Shir Hashirim 3

¹In the nights on my bed

I sought him whom my nefesh loveth;

I sought him, but I found him not.

²So I will rise then, and go about the city

in the streets, and in the rechovot (open squares, places) ;

I will seek him whom my nefesh loveth;

I sought him, but found him not.

³The shomrim (watchmen) that go about the city found me;

to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my nefesh loveth?

⁴Scarcely had I passed from them,

when I found him whom my nefesh loveth;

I held him, and would not let him go,

until I had brought him into the bais immi (the house of my mother) ,

and into the cheder of her that conceived me.

⁵I charge you, O ye banot Yerushalayim,

by the gazelles, and by the deer of the sadeh,

that ye arouse nor awake HaAhavah

till it pleases.

⁶Who is this that cometh out of the midbar

like pillars of smoke,

perfumed with myrrh and frankincense

from all the fragrant powders of the rokhel (merchant) ?

⁷Hinei, his conveyance, which is Sh'lomoʼs;[#3:7 See palanquin, 3:9]

threescore gibborim (valiant men) are around it,

the Gibborei Yisroel.

⁸They all hold swords,

being expert in milchamah (war) ;

every man hath his cherev (sword) at his side

against the pachad (terror, dread) of the nights.

⁹HaMelech Sh'lomo made himself an appiryon (palanquin) ,[#3:9 mobile throne carried on a litter on the shoulders of men]

of the wood of the Levanon.

¹⁰He made the pillars thereof of kesef,

the support thereof of zahav,

the cushion of it of purple,

the interior thereof being inlaid with Ahavah,

by the banot Yerushalayim.

¹¹Come out, O ye banot Tziyon,

and behold Sh'lomo HaMelech

with the atarah (crown) wherewith his em crowned him

in the Yom Chasunoh (day of his wedding) ,

and in the Yom Simchat Libo (day of the gladness of his heart) .