22:002:010 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise
up, my love, my fair
one,
and come away.
22:002:011 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
22:002:012 The flowers appear on the earth; the time
of the singing of
birds
is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our
land;
22:002:013 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
and the vines with
the
tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love,
my fair
one,
and come away.
22:002:014 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the
rock, in the secret
places
of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear
thy
voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance
is
comely.
22:002:015 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that
spoil the vines: for
our
vines have tender grapes.
22:002:016 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
22:002:017 Until the day break, and the shadows flee
away, turn, my
beloved,
and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the
mountains
of Bether.
22:003:001 By night on my bed I sought him whom my
soul loveth: I sought
him,
but I found him not.
22:003:002 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.
22:003:003 The watchmen that go about the city found
me: to whom I said,
Saw
ye him whom my soul loveth?
22:003:004 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.
22:003:005 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.
22:003:006 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness
like pillars of
smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders
of
the merchant?
22:003:007 Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s;
threescore valiant men are
about
it, of the valiant of Israel.
22:003:008 They all hold swords, being expert in war:
every man hath his
sword
upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
22:003:009 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
22:003:010 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.
22:003:011 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.


