1 “ On my bed night after night I looked for him whom my soul loves. I looked for him but did not find him.

De noite, em meu leito, busquei aquele a quem ama a minha alma; busquei-o, porém não o achei.

2 ‘ I must get up now and go about the city, in the streets and in the open places. I must look for him whom my soul loves.’ I looked for him but did not find him.

Levantar-me-ei, pois, e rodearei a cidade; pelas ruas e pelas praças buscarei aquele a quem ama a minha alma. Busquei-o, porém não o achei.

3 T he men who watch over the city found me, and I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’

Encontraram-me os guardas que rondavam pela cidade; eu lhes perguntei: Vistes, porventura, aquele a quem ama a minha alma?

4 I had just passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held on to him and would not let him go, until I had brought him to my mother’s house, and into the room of her who gave birth to me.” King Solomon

Apenas me tinha apartado deles, quando achei aquele a quem ama a minha alma; detive-o, e não o deixei ir embora, até que o introduzi na casa de minha mãe, na câmara daquela que me concebeu:

5 “ I tell you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the deer of the field, you must not wake up my love until it is pleasing to her.” The Third Song The Woman

Conjuro-vos, ó filhos de Jerusalém, pelas gazelas e cervas do campo, que não acordeis, nem desperteis o amor, até que ele o queira.

6 “ What is this coming up from the desert like smoke? It has the smell of special perfumes, with all the perfumes of the traders.

Que é isso que sobe do deserto, como colunas de fumaça, perfumado de mirra, de incenso, e de toda sorte de pós aromáticos do mercador?

7 S ee, it is the traveling wagon of Solomon. Sixty of the strong men of Israel are around it.

Eis que é a liteira de Salomão; estão ao redor dela sessenta valentes, dos valentes de Israel,

8 A ll of them use the sword and are very able in war. Each man has his sword at his side, keeping watch against trouble in the night.

todos armados de espadas, destros na guerra, cada um com a sua espada a cinta, por causa dos temores noturnos.

9 K ing Solomon has made for himself a beautiful wagon from the wood of Lebanon.

O rei Salomão fez para si um palanquim de madeira do Líbano.

10 H e made its long pieces of silver, its back of gold, and its seat of purple cloth. The inside of it was made beautiful by the daughters of Jerusalem.

Fez-lhe as colunas de prata, o estrado de ouro, o assento de púrpura, o interior carinhosamente revestido pelas filhas de Jerusalém.

11 G o out, O daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon as he wears the crown his mother put on his head on the day of his wedding, on the day his heart was glad.”

Saí, ó filhas de Sião, e contemplai o rei Salomão com a coroa de que sua mãe o coroou no dia do seu desposório, no dia do júbilo do seu coração.