[1] At night on my bed, I look for the man I love. I looked for him, but I could not find him!
[2] I will get up now! I will go around the city. In the streets and squares, I will look for the man I love. I looked for him, but I could not find him!
[3] The guards patrolling the city found me. ˻I asked them,˼ ”Have you seen the man I love?”
[4] I had just left the guards when I found the man I love! I held him. I would not let him go, while I took him to my mother’s house, to the room of she who bore me.
[5] Women of Jerusalem, promise me, by the gazelles and wild deer, don’t wake love, don’t arouse love, until I am ready.
[6] Who is this woman coming from the desert ˻with this large group of people˼? ˻The dust rises behind them˼ like clouds of smoke from burning myrrh and frankincense and other spices.
[7] Look, Solomon’s traveling chair! There are 60 soldiers guarding it. Strong soldiers of Israel!
[8] All of them are trained fighting men; their swords at their side, ready for any danger of the night!
[9] King Solomon made a traveling chair for himself. The wood came from Lebanon.
[10] The poles were made from silver, the supports were made from gold. The seat was covered with purple cloth. It was inlaid with love by the women of Jerusalem.
[11] Women of Zion, come out and see King Solomon See the crown his mother put on him the day he was married, the day he was so happy!