17UNTIL THAT <IT> WILL BREATHE THE DAY AND THEY WILL FLEE THE SHADOWS TURN BE LIKE <FOR> YOURSELF O LOVER MY <TO> A GAZELLE OR <TO> [THE] FAWN OF THE DEER<S> ON [THE] MOUNTAINS OF RAVINE[S] 17Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.*NoteCloseOr the rugged mountains
1ON BED MY IN THE NIGHTS I SOUGHT <OBJ.> WHOM IT LOVES SELF MY I SOUGHT HIM AND NOT I FOUND HIM The Bride’s Dream 1On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
2I WILL ARISE PLEASE AND I WILL GO AROUND IN THE CITY IN THE STREETS AND IN THE OPEN PLACES I WILL SEEK <OBJ.> WHOM IT LOVES SELF MY I SOUGHT HIM AND NOT I FOUND HIM 2I 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.
3THEY FOUND ME THE WATCHMEN WHO GO AROUND IN THE CITY <OBJ.> WHOM IT LOVES SELF MY HAVE YOU SEEN? 3I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
4LIKE A LITTLE THAT I HAD PASSED AWAY FROM THEM UNTIL THAT I FOUND <OBJ.> WHOM IT LOVES SELF MY I GRASPED HIM AND NOT I LET GO HIM UNTIL THAT I HAD BROUGHT HIM TO [THE] HOUSE OF MOTHER MY AND TO [THE] ROOM OF [THE ONE WHO] CONCEIVED ME 4I 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.
5I ADJURE <OBJ.> YOU O DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM BY GAZELLES OR BY [THE] DOES OF THE FIELD IF YOU WILL AWAKEN AND IF YOU WILL AROUSE <OBJ.> <THE> LOVE UNTIL THAT IT WILL PLEASE 5O 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.
6WHO? THIS [IS] COMING UP FROM THE WILDERNESS LIKE COLUMNS OF SMOKE [WHO IS] PERFUMED OF MYRRH AND FRANKINCENSE FROM ALL [THE] SCENT-POWDER OF A TRADER Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Day 6Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
7THERE! BED HIS WHICH [BELONGS] TO SOLOMON SIXTY WARRIORS [ARE] AROUND <TO> <THE> IT SOME OF [THE] WARRIORS OF ISRAEL 7Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage,*NoteCloseThat is, the couch on which servants carry a king escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.
8ALL OF THEM [ARE] GRASPED OF A SWORD [ARE] TRAINED OF WARFARE EACH ONE SWORD HIS [IS] ON THIGH HIS FROM DREAD IN THE NIGHTS 8All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of the night.
9A LITTER HE HAS MADE FOR HIMSELF THE KING SOLOMON FROM [THE] WOOD<S> OF <THE> LEBANON 9King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon.
10POSTS ITS HE MADE SILVER BACK ITS GOLD SEAT ITS PURPLE WOOL MIDDLE ITS [WAS] FITTED OUT LEATHER FROM [THE] DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM 10He 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.
11COME OUT AND LOOK O DAUGHTERS OF ZION ON THE KING SOLOMON ON THE CROWN THAT <SHE> CROWNED <TO> HIM MOTHER HIS ON [THE] DAY OF WEDDING HIS AND ON [THE] DAY OF [THE] REJOICING OF HEART HIS 11Come 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.