CHAP. III.
The spouse seeks Christ. The
glory of his humanity.
1 In my bed by night I sought
him whom my soul loveth,
I sought him, and found him
not.
2 I will rise, and will go
about the city: in the streets and
the broad ways I will seek him
whom my soul loveth: I sought
him, and I found him not.
3 The watchmen who keep
the city, found me. Have
you seen him, whom my soul
loveth?
4 When I had a little passed
by them, I found him
whom my soul loveth: I held
him, and I will not let him
go, till I bring him into my
mother's house, and into the
chamber of her that bore me.
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, surround 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
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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.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
