Song of SolomonJudaism / Hebrew BibleAccepted ScriptureBiblical Hebrew / AramaicShareSong of Solomon 3Douay - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Song of Solomon 1Song of Solomon 2Song of Solomon 3Song of Solomon 4Song of Solomon 5Song of Solomon 6Song of Solomon 7Song of Solomon 8›Song of Solomon 3ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not. 2I 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. 3The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth? 4When 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. 5I 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. 6Who 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? 7Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon? 8All holding swords, and most expert in war: every man's sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night. 9King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus: 10The 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. 11Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the diadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousal, in the day of the joy of his heart. ‹Previous chapterSong of Solomon 2Next chapterSong of Solomon 4›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.VersionsSong of Solomon 3 across 9 versionsShow all 9WEB - World English BibleKJV - King James VersionASV - American Standard VersionDarby - Darby BibleYLT - Young's Literal TranslationWebster - Webster BibleGeneva - Geneva BibleDouay - Douay-Rheims ChallonerRV1909 - Reina-Valera 1909Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public Domain