我夜夜在床上寻找我心所爱的；我寻找他，却寻不见。
On my bed night after night / I sought him whom my soul loves; / I sought him, but found him not.

我说，我要起来，绕行城中，在街道上，在宽阔处，寻找我心所爱的。我寻找他，却寻不见。
I will rise now and go about in the city; / In the streets and in the squares / I will seek him whom my soul loves. / I sought him, but found him not.

城中巡逻看守的人遇见我；我问他们：你们看见我心所爱的没有？
The watchmen who go about in the city found me — / Have you seen him whom my soul loves?

我刚离开他们，就遇见我心所爱的；我拉住他，不让他走，直到领他进我母家，到怀我者的内室。
Scarcely had I passed them / When I found him whom my soul loves; / I held him and would not let go / Until I had brought him into my mother's house / And into the chamber of her who conceived me.

耶路撒冷的众女子啊，我指着羚羊或田野的母鹿郑重地嘱咐你们，不要惊动，不要叫醒我所爱的，等她自己情愿。
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, / By the gazelles or by the hinds of the fields, / Not to rouse up or awaken my love / Until she pleases.

那从旷野上来，形状如烟柱，以没药和乳香，并商人各样香粉薰的，是谁呢？
Who is she who comes up from the wilderness / Like pillars of smoke, / Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, / With all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

看哪，是所罗门的卧榻；四围有六十个勇士，都是以色列中的勇士。
There is Solomon's bed; / Sixty mighty men surround it, / Of the mighty men of Israel.

个个都拿着刀，善于争战；人人腰间佩刀，防备夜间有惊慌。
All of them wield the sword and are expert in war; / Each man has his sword at his thigh / Because of the night alarms.

所罗门王用利巴嫩木，为自己制造一乘华轿。
King Solomon made himself a palanquin / Of the wood of Lebanon.

轿柱是用银作的，轿底是用金作的；坐垫是紫色的；其中所铺的，是耶路撒冷众女子的爱情。
Its posts he made of silver; / Its bottom, of gold; / Its seat, of purple; / Its midst was inlaid with love / From the daughters of Jerusalem.

锡安的众女子啊，你们出去观看所罗门王戴着冠冕，就是在他婚娶的日子，心中喜乐的时候，他母亲给他戴上的。
Go forth, O daughters of Zion, / And look at King Solomon with the crown / With which his mother crowned him / On the day of his espousals, / Yes, on the day of the gladness of his heart.