¹By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

¹Po ležaju svome, u noćima, tražila sam onoga koga ljubi duša moja, tražila sam ga, ali ga nisam našla.

²I 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.

²Ustat ću dakle i optrčati grad, po ulicama i trgovima tražit ću onoga koga ljubi duša moja: tražila sam ga, ali ga nisam našla.

³The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

³Sretoše me čuvari koji grad obilaze: "Vidjeste li onoga koga ljubi duša moja?"

⁴It 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.

⁴Tek što pođoh od njih, nađoh onoga koga ljubi duša moja. Uhvatila sam ga i neću ga pustiti, dok ga ne uvedem u kuću majke svoje, u ložnicu roditeljke svoje.

⁵I 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.

⁵Zaklinjem vas, kćeri jeruzalemske, srnama i košutama poljskim, ne budite, ne budite ljubav moju dok sama ne bude htjela!

⁶Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

⁶Što se to diže iz pustinje kao stup dima iz kada smirne i tamjana i svih prašaka mirodijskih?

⁷Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.

⁷Gle, to je nosiljka Salomonova, oko nje šezdeset kršnih momaka između najkršnijih u Izraelu.

⁸They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

⁸Svi su vični mačevima, za rat su izvježbani, svakome je sablja o boku zbog opasnosti noćnih.

⁹King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

⁹Sebi je prijestolje načinio kralj Salomon od drveta libanskoga.

¹⁰He 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.

¹⁰Stupove je napravio od srebra, naslon od zlata, sjedište od grimiza, unutra je sve ukrašeno ljubavlju kćeri jeruzalemskih.

¹¹Go 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.

¹¹Izađite, kćeri sionske, i vidite kralja Salomona pod dijademom kojim ga mati ovjenčala na dan svadbe njegove, na dan radosti njegova srca.