Song of Songs

²I will rise up, and I will circle through the city. Through the side streets and thoroughfares, I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him. ↗

³The watchers who guard the city found me: ”Have you seen him whom my soul loves?“ ↗

⁴When I had passed by them a little, I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not release him, until I would bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who bore me. ↗

⁸all holding swords and well-trained in warfare, each one’s weapon upon his thigh, because of fears in the night. ↗

¹⁰He made its columns of silver, the reclining place of gold, the ascent of purple; the middle he covered well, out of charity for the daughters of Jerusalem. ↗

¹¹O daughters of Zion, go forth and see king Solomon with the diadem with which his mother crowned him, on the day of his espousal, on the day of the rejoicing of his heart. ↗