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

On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!

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.

-- Pray, let me rise, and go round the city, In the streets and in the broad places, I seek him whom my soul hath loved! -- I sought him, and I found him not.

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

The watchmen have found me, (Who are going round about the city), `Him whom my soul have loved saw ye?'

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

But a little I passed on from them, Till I found him whom my soul hath loved! I seized him, and let him not go, Till I brought him in unto the house of my mother -- And the chamber of her that conceived me.

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

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

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.

Who this coming up from the wilderness, Like palm-trees of smoke, Perfumed myrrh and frankincense, From every powder of the merchant?

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

Lo, his couch, that Solomon's, Sixty mighty ones around it, Of the mighty of 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.

All of them holding sword, taught of battle, Each his sword by his thigh, for fear at night.

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

A palanquin king Solomon made for himself, Of the wood of Lebanon,

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.

Its pillars he made of silver, Its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, Its midst lined love, By the daughters of Jerusalem.

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.”

Go forth, and look, ye daughters of Zion, On king Solomon, with the crown, With which his mother crowned him, In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the joy of his heart!