Read the Bible

¹ At night on my bed,
    I look for the man I love.
I looked for him,
    but I could not find him.
² I will get up now!
    I will go around the city.
In the streets and squares,
    I will look for the man I love.

I looked for him,
    but I could not find him.
³ The guards patrolling the city found me.
    I asked them, "Have you seen the man I love?"

⁴ I had just left the guards
    when I found the man I love!
I held him and would not let him go,
    while I took him to my mother's house,
    to the room of one who bore^[a] me.

⁵ Women of Jerusalem, promise me
    by the gazelles and wild deer,
don't awaken love,
    don't arouse love, until I am ready.^[b]

⁶ Who is this woman
    coming from the desert^[c]
    with this large group of people?
The dust rises behind them
    like clouds of smoke from burning myrrh and frankincense and other spices.^[d]

⁷ Look, Solomon's traveling chair.^[e]
    There are 60 soldiers guarding it,
    strong soldiers of Israel.
⁸ All of them are trained fighting men
    with their swords at their side,
    ready for any danger of the night.

⁹ King Solomon made a traveling chair for himself.
    The wood came from Lebanon.
¹⁰ The poles were made from silver,
    and the supports were made from gold.
The seat was covered with purple cloth.
    It was inlaid with love by the women of Jerusalem.

¹¹ Women of Zion, come out
    and see King Solomon.
See the crown^[f] his mother put on him
    the day he was married,
    the day he was so happy!