< Song of Solomon 3 >
1 On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
On bed my in the nights I sought whom it loves self my I sought him and not I found him.
2 I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
I will arise please and I will go around in the city in the streets and in the open places I will seek whom it loves self my I sought him and not I found him.
3 I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
They found me the watchmen who go around in the city whom it loves self my have you seen?
4 I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
Like a little that I had passed away from them until that I found whom it loves self my I grasped him and not I let go him until that I had brought him to [the] house of mother my and to [the] room of [the one who] conceived me.
5 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
I adjure you O daughters of Jerusalem by gazelles or by [the] does of the field if you will awaken - and if you will arouse love until that it will please.
6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
Who? this [is] coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke [who is] perfumed of myrrh and frankincense from all [the] scent-powder of a trader.
7 Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.
There! bed his which [belongs] to Solomon sixty warriors [are] around it some of [the] warriors of Israel.
8 All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of the night.
All of them [are] grasped of a sword [are] trained of warfare each one sword his [is] on thigh his from dread (in the nights. *L(abh)*)
9 King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon.
A litter he has made for himself the king Solomon from [the] wood of Lebanon.
10 He has made its posts of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple fabric. Its interior is inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.
Posts its he made silver back its gold seat its purple wool middle its [was] fitted out leather from [the] daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother bestowed on the day of his wedding— the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
Come out - and look O daughters of Zion on the king Solomon on the crown that crowned him mother his on [the] day of wedding his and on [the] day of [the] rejoicing of heart his.