By night
on my bed
I sought
him whom my soul
loveth:
I sought
him, but I found
him not.
I will rise
now, and go about
the city
in the streets,
and in the broad ways
I will seek
him whom my soul
loveth:
I sought
him, but I found
him not.
The watchmen
that go about
the city
found
me: to whom I said, Saw
ye him whom my soul
loveth?
It was but a little
that I passed
from them, but I found
him whom my soul
loveth:
I held
him, and would not let him go,
until I had brought
him into my mother's
house,
and into the chamber
of her that conceived
me.
I charge
you, O ye daughters
of Jerusalem,
by the roes,
and
by the hinds
of the field,
that ye stir not up,
nor awake
my love,
till he please.
Who is this that cometh
out of the wilderness
like pillars
of smoke,
perfumed
with myrrh
and frankincense,
with all powders
of the merchant?
Behold his bed,
which is Solomon's;
threescore
valiant
men are about
it, of the valiant
of Israel.
They all hold
swords,
being expert
in war:
every man
hath his sword
upon his thigh
because of fear
in the night.
King
Solomon
made
himself a chariot
of the wood
of Lebanon.
He made
the pillars
thereof of silver,
the bottom
thereof of gold,
the covering
of it of purple,
the midst
thereof being paved
with love,
for the daughters
of Jerusalem.
sth to recline on
ἀνάκλιτον
anakliton
stepping upon
ἐπίβασις
epibasis
darkgleaming
πορφυρᾶ
porphyra
Go forth,
O ye daughters
of Zion,
and behold
king
Solomon
with the crown
wherewith his mother
crowned
him in the day
of his espousals,
and in the day
of the gladness
of his heart.
Salōmōn
Σαλωμων
salōmōn
crown
ἐστεφάνωσεν
estephanōsen
wedding
νυμφεύσεως
nympheuseōs
