2 “I will rise now,” Isaid, “And go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I will seek the one I love.” I sought him, but I did not find him.
3aThe watchmen who go about the city found me; Isaid, “Have you seen the one I love?”
4 Scarcely had I passed by them, When I found the one I love. I held him and would not let him go, Until I had brought him to the ahouse of my mother, And into the1 chamber of her who conceived me.
5aI1 charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles or by the does of the field, Do not stir up nor awaken love Until it pleases.
The Coming of Solomon
The Shulamite
6aWho is this coming out of the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all the merchant’s fragrant powders?
Into my mother' s house - The women in the East have all separate apartments, into which no person ever attempts to enter except the husband. We find Isaac bringing Rebecca into his mother' s tent, when he made her his wife, Genesis 24:67. What is here related appears to refer to the third night of the nuptials.
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