ΑΣΜΑ - Cantico - Canticle of Canticles 3

LXX	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 επι κοιτην μου εν νυξιν εζητησα ον ηγαπησεν η ψυχη μου εζητησα αυτον και ουχ ευρον αυτον εκαλεσα αυτον και ουχ υπηκουσεν μου	1 In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not.
2 αναστησομαι δη και κυκλωσω εν τη πολει εν ταις αγοραις και εν ταις πλατειαις και ζητησω ον ηγαπησεν η ψυχη μου εζητησα αυτον και ουχ ευρον αυτον	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 ευροσαν με οι τηρουντες οι κυκλουντες εν τη πολει μη ον ηγαπησεν η ψυχη μου ειδετε	3 The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?
4 ως μικρον οτε παρηλθον απ' αυτων εως ου ευρον ον ηγαπησεν η ψυχη μου εκρατησα αυτον και ουκ αφησω αυτον εως ου εισηγαγον αυτον εις οικον μητρος μου και εις ταμιειον της συλλαβουσης με	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 ωρκισα υμας θυγατερες ιερουσαλημ εν ταις δυναμεσιν και εν ταις ισχυσεσιν του αγρου εαν εγειρητε και εξεγειρητε την αγαπην εως αν θεληση	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 τις αυτη η αναβαινουσα απο της ερημου ως στελεχη καπνου τεθυμιαμενη σμυρναν και λιβανον απο παντων κονιορτων μυρεψου	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 ιδου η κλινη του σαλωμων εξηκοντα δυνατοι κυκλω αυτης απο δυνατων ισραηλ	7 Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon?
8 παντες κατεχοντες ρομφαιαν δεδιδαγμενοι πολεμον ανηρ ρομφαια αυτου επι μηρον αυτου απο θαμβους εν νυξιν	8 All holding swords, and most expert in war : every man's sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.
9 φορειον εποιησεν εαυτω ο βασιλευς σαλωμων απο ξυλων του λιβανου	9 King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus:
10 στυλους αυτου εποιησεν αργυριον και ανακλιτον αυτου χρυσεον επιβασις αυτου πορφυρα εντος αυτου λιθοστρωτον αγαπην απο θυγατερων ιερουσαλημ	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 εξελθατε και ιδετε εν τω βασιλει σαλωμων εν τω στεφανω ω εστεφανωσεν αυτον η μητηρ αυτου εν ημερα νυμφευσεως αυτου και εν ημερα ευφροσυνης καρδιας αυτου	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.