Song of Solomon 3:5-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.

⁶ Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer?

⁷ Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon?

⁸ All holding swords, and most expert in war: every man's sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.

⁹ King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus:

¹⁰ The pillars thereof he made of silver, the seat of gold, the going up of purple: the midst he covered with charity for the daughters of Jerusalem.

¹¹ Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the diadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the joy of his heart.