The woman searches the city at night for the one she loves and finds him. The chapter then describes King Solomon's wedding procession, with its carriage and attendants.
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 .