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Solomon's Canticle of Canticles
Chapter 3
The spouse seeks Christ. The glory of his humanity.
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In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not. |
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I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not. |
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The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth? |
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When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me. |
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I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please. |
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Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer? |
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Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon? |
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All holding swords, and most expert in war: every man's sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night. |
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King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus: |
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The pillars thereof he made of silver, the seat of gold, the going up of purple: the midst he covered with charity for the daughters of Jerusalem. |
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Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the diadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of the joy of his heart. |
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