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

¹Na ležišču svojem po noči sem iskala njega, ki ga ljubi duša moja; iskala sem ga, a nisem ga 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.

²Rečem: Naj vstanem in prehodim mesto, po ulicah in po trgih hočem iskati njega, ki ga ljubi duša moja. Iskala sem ga, a nisem ga našla.

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

³Zalotili so me stražarji, ki hodijo po mestu; vprašam jih: Ste ga li videli, ki ga 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.

⁴Le malo sem prešla mimo njih, ko sem ga našla, ki ga ljubi duša moja. Prijela sem ga in ga nisem pustila, dokler ga nisem vpeljala v matere svoje hišo in v hram porodnice 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.

⁵Rotim vas, hčere jeruzalemske, pri gazelah in pri košutah poljskih, da ne prebudite in ne predramite ljubezni, dokler ji je drago!

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

⁶Kdo je ona, ki prihaja gori iz puščave, podobna stebru dima, polna vonja mire in kadila, vsakršnega dišečega prahu trgovčevega?

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

⁷Glejte tu, prenosna postelja Salomonova: šestdeset junakov okoli nje, izmed Izraelovih junakov!

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

⁸Vsi znajo sukati meč, so vešči vojni; slednji ima meč ob bedru svojem zaradi strahu po noči.

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

⁹Nosilnico krasno si je napravil kralj Salomon iz lesa libanonskega.

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.

¹⁰Stebre njene je naredil iz srebra, slonilo iz zlata, sedalo iz škrlata, znotraj pa je umetno vezena z ljubeznijo od hčera jeruzalemskih.Pojdite ven, o hčere sionske, in glejte kralja Salomona v vencu, s katerim ga je ovenčala mati njegova v dan poroke njegove in v dan veselja njegovega srca.

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.

¹¹Pojdite ven, o hčere sionske, in glejte kralja Salomona v vencu, s katerim ga je ovenčala mati njegova v dan poroke njegove in v dan veselja njegovega srca.