¹In lectulo meo,Bride: On my bed,per noctes, quæsivi quem diligit anima mea:throughout the night, I sought him whom my soul loves.quæsivi illum, et non inveni.I sought him, and did not find him.

¹In lectulo meo,Bride: On my bed,per noctes, quæsivi quem diligit anima mea:throughout the night, I sought him whom my soul loves.quæsivi illum, et non inveni.I sought him, and did not find him.

²Surgam,I will rise up,et circuibo civitatem:and I will circle through the city.per vicosThrough the side streets and thoroughfares,et plateas quæram quem diligit anima mea:I will seek him whom my soul loves.quæsivi illum,I sought him,et non inveni.and did not find him.

²Surgam,I will rise up,et circuibo civitatem:and I will circle through the city.per vicosThrough the side streets and thoroughfares,et plateas quæram quem diligit anima mea:I will seek him whom my soul loves.quæsivi illum,I sought him,et non inveni.and did not find him.

³Invenerunt me vigiles qui custodiunt civitatem:The watchers who guard the city found me:Num quem diligit anima mea vidistis?“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

³Invenerunt me vigiles qui custodiunt civitatem:The watchers who guard the city found me:Num quem diligit anima mea vidistis?“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

⁴Paululum cum pertransissem eos,When I had passed by them a little,inveni quem diligit anima mea:I found him whom my soul loves.tenui eum,I held him,nec dimittam,and would not release him,donec introducam illum in domum matris meæ,until I would bring him into my mother’s house,et in cubiculum genetricis meæ.and into the chamber of her who bore me.

⁴Paululum cum pertransissem eos,When I had passed by them a little,inveni quem diligit anima mea:I found him whom my soul loves.tenui eum,I held him,nec dimittam,and would not release him,donec introducam illum in domum matris meæ,until I would bring him into my mother’s house,et in cubiculum genetricis meæ.and into the chamber of her who bore me.

⁵Adjuro vos,Groom to Chorus:filiæ Jerusalem,I bind you by oath,per capreas cervosque camporum,O daughters of Jerusalem,ne suscitetis,by the does and the stags of the open field,neque evigilare faciatis dilectam,not to disturb or awaken the beloved,donec ipsa velit.until she wills.

⁵Adjuro vos,Groom to Chorus:filiæ Jerusalem,I bind you by oath,per capreas cervosque camporum,O daughters of Jerusalem,ne suscitetis,by the does and the stags of the open field,neque evigilare faciatis dilectam,not to disturb or awaken the beloved,donec ipsa velit.until she wills.

⁶Quæ est ista quæ ascendit per desertum sicut virgula fumi ex aromatibus myrrhæ, et thuris, et universi pulveris pigmentarii?Chorus to Groom: Who is she, who ascends through the desert, like a staff of smoke from the aromatics of myrrh, and frankincense, and every powder of the perfumer?

⁶Quæ est ista quæ ascendit per desertum sicut virgula fumi ex aromatibus myrrhæ, et thuris, et universi pulveris pigmentarii?Chorus to Groom: Who is she, who ascends through the desert, like a staff of smoke from the aromatics of myrrh, and frankincense, and every powder of the perfumer?

⁷En lectulum Salomonis sexaginta fortes ambiunt ex fortissimis Israël,Chorus to Bride: Lo, sixty strong ones, out of all the strongest in Israel, stand watch at the bed of Solomon,

⁷En lectulum Salomonis sexaginta fortes ambiunt ex fortissimis Israël,Chorus to Bride: Lo, sixty strong ones, out of all the strongest in Israel, stand watch at the bed of Solomon,

⁸omnes tenentes gladios,all holding swords and well-trained in warfare,et ad bella doctissimi:each one’s weapon upon his thigh,uniuscujusque ensis super femur suum propter timores nocturnos.because of fears in the night.

⁸omnes tenentes gladios,all holding swords and well-trained in warfare,et ad bella doctissimi:each one’s weapon upon his thigh,uniuscujusque ensis super femur suum propter timores nocturnos.because of fears in the night.

⁹Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon de lignis Libani;Bride to Chorus: King Solomon made himself a portable throne from the wood of Lebanon.

⁹Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon de lignis Libani;Bride to Chorus: King Solomon made himself a portable throne from the wood of Lebanon.

¹⁰columnas ejus fecit argenteas,He made its columns of silver,reclinatorium aureum,the reclining place of gold,ascensum purpureum;the ascent of purple;media caritate constravit,the middle he covered well,propter filias Jerusalem.out of charity for the daughters of Jerusalem.

¹⁰columnas ejus fecit argenteas,He made its columns of silver,reclinatorium aureum,the reclining place of gold,ascensum purpureum;the ascent of purple;media caritate constravit,the middle he covered well,propter filias Jerusalem.out of charity for the daughters of Jerusalem.

¹¹Egredimini et videte,O daughters of Zion,filiæ Sion,go forth and see king Solomon with the diadem with which his mother crowned him,regem Salomonem in diademate quo coronavit illum mater sua in die desponsationis illius,on the day of his espousal,et in die lætitiæ cordis ejus.on the day of the rejoicing of his heart.

¹¹Egredimini et videte,O daughters of Zion,filiæ Sion,go forth and see king Solomon with the diadem with which his mother crowned him,regem Salomonem in diademate quo coronavit illum mater sua in die desponsationis illius,on the day of his espousal,et in die lætitiæ cordis ejus.on the day of the rejoicing of his heart.