Song of Solomon 3:2-8

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.

³The watchmen that go about the city found me: 'Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?'

⁴Scarce had I passed from them, when 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 adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.'

⁶Who is this that cometh up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

⁷Behold, it is the litter of Solomon; threescore mighty men are about it, of the mighty men of Israel.

⁸They all handle the sword, and are expert in war; every man hath his sword upon his thigh, because of dread in the night.