1All night long on my bed
I looked for the one my heart loves;
I looked for him but did not find him.
2I will get up now and go about the city,
through its streets and squares;
I will search for the one my heart loves.
So I looked for him but did not find him.
3The watchmen found me
as they made their rounds in the city.
‘Have you seen the one my heart loves?’
4Scarcely had I passed them
when I found the one my heart loves.
I held him and would not let him go
till I had brought him to my mother’s house,
to the room of the one who conceived me.
5Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.
6Who is this coming up from the wilderness
like a column of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and incense
made from all the spices of the merchant?
7Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,
escorted by sixty warriors,
the noblest of Israel,
8all of them wearing the sword,
all experienced in battle,
each with his sword at his side,
prepared for the terrors of the night.
9King Solomon made for himself the carriage;
he made it of wood from Lebanon.
10Its posts he made of silver,
its base of gold.
Its seat was upholstered with purple,
its interior inlaid with love.
Daughters of Jerusalem, 11come out,
and look, you daughters of Zion.
Look3:10,11 Or interior lovingly inlaid / by the daughters of Jerusalem. / 11 Come out, you daughters of Zion, / and look on King Solomon wearing a crown,
the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
the day his heart rejoiced.
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.
