Canticle of Canticles 3

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Bride: "On my bed, throughout the night, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him."	1 On my bed at night I sought him
2 "I will rise up, and I will circle through the city. Through the side streets and thoroughfares, I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him."	2 I will rise then and go about the city;
3 "The watchers who guard the city found me: “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”"	3 The watchmen came upon me
4 "When I had passed by them a little, I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not release him, until I would bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who bore me."	4 I had hardly left them
5 Groom to Chorus: "I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the does and the stags of the open field, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills."	5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
6 Chorus to Groom: "Who is she, who ascends through the desert, like a staff of smoke from the aromatics of myrrh, and frankincense, and every powder of the perfumer?"	6 What is this coming up from the desert,
7 Chorus to Bride: "Lo, sixty strong ones, out of all the strongest in Israel, stand watch at the bed of Solomon,"	7 Ah, it is the litter of Solomon;
8 "all holding swords and well-trained in warfare, each one’s weapon upon his thigh, because of fears in the night."	8 All of them expert with the sword,
9 Bride to Chorus: "King Solomon made himself a portable throne from the wood of Lebanon."	9 King Solomon made himself a carriage
10 "He made its columns of silver, the reclining place of gold, the ascent of purple; the middle he covered well, out of charity for the daughters of Jerusalem."	10 He made its columns of silver,
11 "O daughters of Zion, go forth and see king Solomon with the diadem with which his mother crowned him, on the day of his espousal, on the day of the rejoicing of his heart."	11 Daughters of Jerusalem, come forth