When I had passed a little from them, then I found him whom my soul loved: I took hold on him, and left him not, till I had brought him unto my mother’s house, into the chamber of her that conceived me.

[a]I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor waken my love until she please.

Who is she that cometh up out of the [b]wilderness like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrh and incense, and with all the [c]spices of the merchant?

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:5 Read Song 2:7.
  2. Song of Solomon 3:6 This is referred to the Church of Israel, which was led by the wilderness forty years.
  3. Song of Solomon 3:6 Hebrew, powder.

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