Canticum Canticorum 3
1 In lectulo meo per noctes quaesivi quem diligit anima mea: quaesivi illum, et non inveni.
By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.
2 Surgam, et circuibo civitatem: per vicos et plateas quaeram quem diligit anima mea: quaesivi illum, et non inveni.
I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.
3 Invenerunt me vigiles, qui custodiunt civitatem: Num quem diligit anima mea, vidistis?
The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?
4 Paululum cum pertransissem eos, inveni quem diligit anima mea: tenui eum, nec dimittam donec introducam illum in domum matris meae, et in cubiculum genetricis meae.
I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.
5 Adiuro vos filiae Ierusalem per capreas, cervosque camporum, ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam donec ipsa velit.
I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.
6 Quae est ista, quae ascendit per desertum sicut virgula fumi ex aromatibus myrrhae, et thuris, et universi pulveris pigmentarii?
Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?
7 En lectulum Salomonis sexaginta fortes ambiunt ex fortissimis Israel:
See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,
8 omnes tenentes gladios, et ad bella doctissimi: uniuscuiusque ensis super femur suum propter timores nocturnos.
All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.
9 Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon de lignis Libani:
King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.
10 columnas eius fecit argenteas, reclinatorium aureum, ascensum purpureum: media charitate constravit propter filias Ierusalem:
He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.
11 Egredimini et videte filiae Sion regem Salomonem in diademate, quo coronavit illum mater sua in die desponsationis illius, et in die laetitiae cordis eius.
Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.
