Song of Solomon 3:5-7

International Children’s Bible

⁵ Women of Jerusalem, promise me
    by the gazelles and the deer.
Promise not to wake love.
    Don’t excite my feelings of love
    until I’m ready.
⁶ Who is this coming out of the desert
    like a cloud of smoke?
Who is this that smells like myrrh, incense
    and other spices?
⁷ Look, it’s Solomon’s couch^[a]
    with 60 soldiers around it.
    They are the finest soldiers of Israel.