Cantico 3

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 In lectulo meo per noctes quaesivi, quem diligit anima mea; quaesivi illum et non inveni.	1 Bride: "On my bed, throughout the night, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him."
2 “ Surgam et circuibo civitatem; per vicos et plateas quaeram, quem diligit anima mea”. Quaesivi illum et non inveni.	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."
3 Invenerunt me vigiles, qui circumeunt civitatem: “ Num, quem diligit anima mea, vidistis? ”.	3 "The watchers who guard the city found me: “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”"
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.	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."
5 Adiuro vos, filiae Ierusalem, per capreas cervasque camporum, ne suscitetis neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, donec ipsa velit.	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."
6 Quid hoc, quod ascendit per desertum sicut virgula fumi, aromatizans tus et myrrham et universum pulverem pigmentarii?	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?"
7 En lectulum Salomonis. Sexaginta fortes ambiunt illum ex fortissimis Israel,	7 Chorus to Bride: "Lo, sixty strong ones, out of all the strongest in Israel, stand watch at the bed of Solomon,"
8 omnes tenentes gladios et ad bella doctissimi, uniuscuiusque ensis super femur suum propter timores nocturnos.	8 "all holding swords and well-trained in warfare, each one’s weapon upon his thigh, because of fears in the night."
9 Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon de lignis Libani;	9 Bride to Chorus: "King Solomon made himself a portable throne from the wood of Lebanon."
10 columnas eius fecit argenteas, reclinatorium aureum, sedile purpureum: medium eius stratum ebeneum. Filiae Ierusalem,	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."
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.	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."