1   Al mishkavi baleilot bikashti
et she'ahavah nafsi;
    bikashtiv velo metsativ.
2  Akumah na va'asovevah va'ir
bashvakim uvarhovot,
avakash et she'ahavah nafshi;
    bikashtiv velo metsativ.
3  Metsa'uni hashomerim hasovevim ba'ir:
    et she'ahavah nafshi re'item?
4  Kimat she'avarti mehem ad shematsati
et she'ahavah nafshi;
    ahaztiv velo arpenu
    ad shehavetiv el beit imi
    ve'el heder horati.
5  Hishbati etkem benot yerushalayim
bitsva'ot o be'ailot hasadeh
    im ta'iru ve'im te'oreru
    et ha'ahavah ad shetehpats.

1  On my bed at night I sought
my soul's love;
    I sought him but found him not.
2  "Let me rise & go around the city,
in the streets & broad ways,
& seek my soul's love."
    I sought him but found him not.
3  The watchmen that go around the city found me:
    "My soul's love -- have you seen him?"
4  Hardly had I passed from them when I found
my soul's love;
    I held him & did not let him go
    until I brought him to my mother's house
    to the chamber of her that conceived me.
5  I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes & the hinds of the field,
    that you stir not up nor awake
    love until it please.

6 Mi zot olah min hamidbar ketimerot ashan, 
mekuteret mor ulevonah mikol avkat rokhel?             

7 Hineh mitato shelishlomoh shishim 
giborim saviv lah migiborei yisra'el.
8 Kulam ahuzei herev, melumdei milhamah; ish harbo al yerekho, mipahad baleilot.
9 Apiryon asah hamelekh shelomoh
me'atsei halevanon.  10 Amudav asah khesef refidato zahav, 
merkavo argaman,
tokho ratsuf ahavah mibenot yerushalayim.
11 Tsenah ur'enah benot tsiyon bamelekh Shelomoh
ba'atarah she'itrah lo imo
beyom hatunato uveyom simhat libo.

6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh & frankincense, with all the merchant's powders?  
7  Lo, it is Solomon's litter, sixty mighty men around it, 
of the mighty men of Israel.
8 All of them are sword-handlers, learned in war;
each with sword at his thigh, from fear by night.
9 King Solomon made himself a palanquin
from the wood of Lebanon. 10 Its pillars he made silver, 
its ceiling gold, its seat purple, 
its inside inlaid with love from the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go forth & gaze, daughters of Zion, upon King Solomon, upon the crown his mother made for him
on his wedding day, the day of his heart's joy.