1.
On my bed at night, I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him but I did not find him.
2.
I will arise now and go about the city, in the market places and in the city squares. I will seek him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but I did not find him.
3.
The watchmen who patrol the city found me: "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"
4.
I had just passed them by, when I found him whom my soul loves; I held him and would not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house and into the chamber of her who had conceived me.
5.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, that you neither awaken nor arouse the love while it is desirous.
6.
Who is this coming up from the desert, like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, of all the powder of the peddler?
7.
Behold the litter of Solomon; sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.
8.
They all hold the sword, skilled in warfare; each one with his sword on his thigh because of fear at night.
9.
King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the trees of Lebanon.
10.
Its pillars he made of silver, its couch of gold, its curtain of purple, its interior inlaid with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.
11.
Go out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze upon King Solomon, upon the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his nuptials and on the day of the joy of his heart.
