The Bride’s Dream 1 CPDV Bride: On my bed, throughout the night, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him. BSB BSB: On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
2 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
3 CPDV The watchers who guard the city found me: “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?” BSB BSB: I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
4 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
5 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Day 6 CPDV 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? BSB BSB: Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
7 CPDV Chorus to Bride: Lo, sixty strong ones, out of all the strongest in Israel, stand watch at the bed of Solomon, BSB BSB: Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.
8 CPDV all holding swords and well-trained in warfare, each one’s weapon upon his thigh, because of fears in the night. BSB BSB: All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of the night.
9 CPDV Bride to Chorus: King Solomon made himself a portable throne from the wood of Lebanon. BSB BSB: King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon.
10 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: He has made its posts of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple fabric. Its interior is inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
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