English / ERV
Song of Solomon 3
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1At night on my bed, I look for the man I love. I looked for him, but I could not find him.
- 2I 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.
- 3The guards patrolling the city found me. I asked them, “Have you seen the man I love?”
- 4I 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[1] me.
- 5Women of Jerusalem, promise me by the gazelles and wild deer, don’t awaken love, don’t arouse love, until I am ready.[2]
- 6Who is this woman coming from the desert[3] with this large group of people? The dust rises behind them like clouds of smoke from burning myrrh and frankincense and other spices.[4]
- 7Look, Solomon’s traveling chair.[5] There are 60 soldiers guarding it, strong soldiers of Israel.
- 8All of them are trained fighting men with their swords at their side, ready for any danger of the night.
- 9King Solomon made a traveling chair for himself. The wood came from Lebanon.
- 10The 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.
- 11Women of Zion, come out and see King Solomon. See the crown[6] his mother put on him the day he was married, the day he was so happy!