Canticle of Canticles 3

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 On my bed at night I sought the man who is my sweetheart: I sought but could not find him!	1 In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not.
2 So I shal get up and go through the city; in the streets and in the squares, I shall seek my sweetheart. Isought but could not find him!	2 I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not.
3 I came upon the watchmen -- those who go on their rounds in the city: 'Have you seen my sweetheart?'	3 The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?
4 Barely had I passed them when I found my sweetheart. I caught him, would not let him go, not til I hadbrought him to my mother's house, to the room where she conceived me!	4 When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.
5 LOVER: I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, by gazel es and wild does, do not rouse, do not wake mybeloved before she pleases.	5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.
6 POET: What is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, breathing of myrrh andfrankincense and every exotic perfume?	6 Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer?
7 Here comes Solomon's litter. Around it are sixty champions, the flower of the warriors of Israel;	7 Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon?
8 al of them skil ed swordsmen, expert in war. Each man has his sword at his side, against alarms bynight.	8 All holding swords, and most expert in war : every man's sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.
9 King Solomon has had a palanquin made of wood from Lebanon.	9 King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus:
10 He has had the posts made of silver, the canopy of gold, the seat of purple; the centre is inlaid withebony.	10 The pillars thereof he made of silver, the seat of gold, the going up of purple : the midst he covered with charity for the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Daughters of Zion, come and see King Solomon, wearing the diadem with which his mother crownedhim on his wedding day, on the day of his heart's joy.	11 Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the diadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the joy of his heart.