3 “^[a]On my bed night after night I sought him
^(A)Whom my soul loves;
I ^(B)sought him but did not find him.
² ‘^[b]I must arise now and ^[c]go about the city;
In the ^(C)streets and in the squares
^[d]I must seek him whom my soul loves.’
I sought him but did not find him.
^3 (D)The watchmen who go about the city found me,
And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
^4 (E)Scarcely had I passed them by
When I found him whom my soul loves;
I ^(F)seized him and would not let him go
Until I had ^(G)brought him to my mother’s house,
And into the chamber of her who conceived me.”

⁶ “^[g](J)Who is this coming up from the wilderness
Like ^(K)columns of smoke,
As rising incense of ^(L)myrrh and ^(M)frankincense,
With all scented powders of the merchant?
⁷ Behold, it is the traveling couch of Solomon;
Sixty mighty men around it,
Of the mighty men of Israel.
⁸ All of them are those who seize the sword,
^(N)Learned in war;
Each man has his ^(O)sword at his side,
Guarding against the ^[h](P)dreadful things of the night.
⁹ King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair
From the timber of Lebanon.
¹⁰ He made its posts of silver,
Its ^[i]back of gold
And its seat of purple fabric,
With its interior inlaid with love
By the ^(Q)daughters of Jerusalem.
¹¹ Go forth and see, O ^(R)daughters of Zion,
King Solomon with the ^[j]crown
With which his mother has crowned him
On the ^(S)day of his wedding,
And on the day of his gladness of heart.”