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  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.
  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.

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  1Thaum tsaus ntuj uas kuv pw saum txaj,
   kuv nrhiav tus uas kuv lub siab nyiam,
   kuv nrhiav nws tiamsis nrhiav tsis tau.
   2Kuv yuav sawv tsees
   mus thoob plaws hauv lub nroog,
   mus hauv tej kev thiab hauv tej tshav puam,
  kuv yuav nrhiav tus uas kuv lub siab nyiam.
   Kuv nrhiav nws tiamsis nrhiav tsis tau.
   3Cov uas faj xwm ntsib kuv rau thaum
   lawv tabtom taug kev hauv lub nroog.
  Kuv nug lawv tias, “Nej pom tus
   uas kuv lub siab nyiam los tsis pom?”
   4Thaum kuv hla dhau lawv mentsis lawm,
   kuv ntsib nws,
   yog tus uas kuv lub siab nyiam.
  Kuv ntsiab nkaus nws
   tsis kam tso nws mus li,
  mus txog thaum kuv coj nws los
   rau hauv kuv niam lub tsev,
  thiab nkag rau hauv
   tus uas xeeb kuv lub txaj.
   5Yeluxalees tej ntxhais 'e,
   thov nej twv rau tej kauv seb
   thiab tej xyuas muas lwj hais tias
  nej yuav tsis tshum tsis tsa
   kom wb txojkev sib hlub tsim ras
   mus txog thaum txaus siab tso.

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  6Leejtwg tawm hauv tebchaws
   moj sab qhua tuaj
  zoo yam li ib nthwv pa ncho
   uas muaj roj tsw qab
   thiab roj ntoos tsw qab tsw ntxiag tuaj,
  yog txhua yam hmoov tsw qab
   uas tub lag tub luam xa tuaj?
   7Saib maj, yog Xalaumoo lub zwm txwv.
   Muaj rau caum leej tub rog
   uas siab tuab vij vog,
  yog Yixayee cov tub rog
   uas siab loj siab tuab.
   8Lawv coj ntaj thiab lawv txawj ntaus rog,
   lawv txhua tus ris ntaj ntawm duav
   faj seeb xwm txheej thaum tsaus ntuj.
   9Vajntxwv Xalaumoo
   muab tej ntoo pem Lenpanoo
   ua lub zwm txwv.
   10Nws muab nyiaj ua ncej zwm txwv,
   thiab muab kub ua daim txiag pheeb
  thiab muab ntaub tsamxem
   pua daim txiag rooj nyob.
  Lub zwm txwv sab hauv yog
   Yeluxalees tej ntxhais muab tawv tsiaj ua.⚓
   11Xi‑oo tej ntxhais 'e, cia li tawm mus
   saib vajntxwv Xalaumoo,
  nws ntoo lub mom kub
   uas nws niam muab looj rau nws taubhau
  rau hnub uas nws ua tshoob,
   yog hnub uas nws zoo siab xyiv fab kawg.