1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 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. 3The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 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. 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.
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?
7Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. 8They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. 9King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.3.9 a chariot: or, a bed 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. 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.
1Anadwo mu nyinaa, wɔ me mpa so
mehwehwɛɛ deɛ mʼakoma da no so;
mehwehwɛɛ no, nanso manhunu no.
2Mɛsɔre afei na makɔ kyinkyini kuropɔn no mu,
ne mmɔntene so ne nʼadwabirem;
na mahwehwɛ deɛ mʼakoma da no so.
Enti mehwehwɛɛ no nanso manhunu no.
3Awɛmfoɔ no hunuu me
ɛberɛ a wɔrebɔ aprɔ wɔ kuropɔn no mu.
“Moahunu deɛ mʼakoma da no so no anaa?”
4Mereyɛ atwa wɔn ho pɛ
na mehunuu deɛ mʼakoma da no so no.
Mesɔɔ ne nsa sɛ meremma no nkɔ
kɔsii sɛ mede no baa me maame fie,
de no kɔɔ deɛ ɔnyinsɛnee me dan mu.
5Yerusalem mmammaa mehyɛ mo sɛ,
Momfa wiram atwewa ne ɔforoteɛ nsuae sɛ
morennyane na morenhwanyane ɔdɔ mu
kɔsi ɛberɛ a ɛsɛ mu.
6Hwan na ɔfiri ɛserɛ so reba
te sɛ wisie kumɔnn a
ɛfiri kurobo, aduhwam
ne adwadifoɔ pɛprɛ ahodoɔ mu, atutu ne ho yi?
7Monhwɛ, ɛyɛ Salomo teaseɛnam a
akofoɔ aduosia bɔ no kyidɔm;
adeɛ a ɛwɔ animuonyam pa ara wɔ Israel,
8Wɔn nyinaa bobɔ akofena,
wɔn nyinaa wɔ akodie ho nyansa.
Wɔn akofena bobɔ wɔn nkyɛn mu,
na obiara asiesie ne ho ama deɛ ɛbɛsi anadwo a ɛyɛ hu biara.
9Ɔhene Salomo yɛɛ teaseɛnam no maa ne ho;
ɔde Lebanon nnua na ɛyɛeɛ.
10Ɔde dwetɛ na ɛyɛɛ nʼadum,
ɔde sikakɔkɔɔ na ɛyɛɛ ne nnyinasoɔ.
Wɔde beredum ntoma na ɛduraa emu nkonnwa ho.
Emu nsiesie yɛ ahomeka
na Yerusalem mmammaa na wɔyɛeɛ. 11Momfiri adi, mo Sion mmammaa,
mommɛhwɛ ɔhene Salomo sɛ ɔhyɛ ahenkyɛ
deɛ ne maame de hyɛɛ no nʼayeforɔhyia da no,
da a ɔdii ahurisie nʼakoma mu no.
