4. As soon as I had left them,I found the one I love.I held him and would not let him gountil I brought him to my mother’s house,to the room where I was born.
5. Women of Jerusalem, promise meby the gazelles and the deernot to awakenor excite my feelings of loveuntil it is ready.
6. Who is this coming out of the desertlike a cloud of smoke?Who is this that smells like myrrh, incense,and other spices?
7. Look, it’s Solomon’s couchwith sixty soldiers around it,the finest soldiers of Israel.
8. These soldiers all carry swordsand have been trained in war.Every man wears a sword at his sideand is ready for the dangers of the night.
9. King Solomon had a couch made for himselfof wood from Lebanon.
10. He made its posts of silverand its braces of gold.The seat was covered with purple cloththat the women of Jerusalem wove with love.