Canticum Canticorum

Canticorum, chapter 3, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 3 Vulgate

   1 In lectulo meo per noctes quaesivi, quem diligit anima mea; quaesivi illum et non inveni.
   2 "Surgam et circuibo civitatem; per vicos et plateas quaeram, quem diligit anima mea". Quaesivi illum et non inveni.
   3 Invenerunt me vigiles, qui circumeunt civitatem: "Num, quem diligit anima mea, vidistis?".
   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.
   5 Adiuro vos, filiae Ierusalem, per capreas cervasque camporum, ne suscitetis neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, donec ipsa velit.
   6 Quid hoc, quod ascendit per desertum sicut virgula fumi, aromatizans tus et myrrham et universum pulverem pigmentarii?
   7 En lectulum Salomonis. Sexaginta fortes ambiunt illum ex fortissimis Israel,
   8 omnes tenentes gladios et ad bella doctissimi, uniuscuiusque ensis super femur suum propter timores nocturnos.
   9 Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon de lignis Libani;
   10 columnas eius fecit argenteas, reclinatorium aureum, sedile purpureum: medium eius stratum ebeneum. Filiae Ierusalem,
   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.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
   2 I 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.
   3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
   4 It 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.
   5 I 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.
   6 ¶ Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
   7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
   8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
   9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
   10 He 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.
   11 Go 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.