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Song of Solomon 3
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King James Version
Shulamite maid
1 By night on my bed I
sought him whom my soul
loveth: I sought him, but
I found him not.
2 I will rise now, and go
about the city in the
streets, and in the broad
ways I will seek him whom
my soul loveth: I sought
him, but I found him not.
3 The watchmen that go
about the city found me:
to whom I said, Saw ye him
whom my soul loveth?
4 It was but a little that
I passed from them, but I
found him whom my soul
loveth: I held him, and
would not let him go,
until I had brought him
into my mother's house,
and into the chamber of
her that conceived me.
5 I charge you, O ye
daughters of Jerusalem, by
the roes, and by the hinds
of the field, that ye stir
not up, nor awake my love,
till he please.
6 Who is this that cometh
out of the wilderness like
pillars of smoke, perfumed
with myrrh and
frankincense, with all
powders of the merchant?
7 Behold his bed, which is
Solomon's; threescore
valiant men are about it,
of the valiant of Israel.
8 They all hold swords,
being expert in war: every
man hath his sword upon
his thigh because of fear
in the night.
9 King Solomon made
himself a chariot of the
wood of Lebanon.
10 He made the pillars
thereof of silver, the
bottom thereof of gold,
the covering of it of
purple, the midst thereof
being paved with love, for
the daughters of
Jerusalem.
11 Go forth, O ye
daughters of Zion, and
behold king Solomon with
the crown wherewith his
mother crowned him in the
day of his espousals, and
in the day of the gladness
of his heart.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2. Matthew Henry Bible Commentary - http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/song/mh/song1.htm
3. John Gill's Exposition of the Bible - http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/song/gill/song1.htm
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Cults 
Why Did God Permit Sin?
The church gives an account of a sore trial wherewith she
was exercised through the withdrawing of her beloved from
her, the pains she was at before she recovered the
comfortable sense of his favour again, and the resolution
she took, when she did recover it, not to lose it again, as
she had done through her own carelessness (v. 1-5).