Ct 3 (King James)

   ¹ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. ² I 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. ³ The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? ⁴ It 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. ⁵ I 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?
   ⁷ Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. ⁸ They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. ⁹ King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. ¹⁰ He 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. ¹¹ Go 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.

Ct 3 (Vulgate)

   ¹ [In lectulo meo, per noctes,
quæsivi quem diligit anima mea :
quæsivi illum, et non inveni.
   ² Surgam, et circuibo civitatem :
per vicos et plateas
quæram quem diligit anima mea :
quæsivi illum, et non inveni.
   ³ Invenerunt me vigiles qui custodiunt civitatem :
Num quem diligit anima mea vidistis ?
   ⁴ Paululum cum pertransissem eos,
inveni quem diligit anima mea :
tenui eum, nec dimittam,
donec introducam illum in domum matris meæ,
et in cubiculum genetricis meæ.
   ⁵ Adjuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem,
per capreas cervosque camporum,
ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam,
donec ipsa velit.
   ⁶ Quæ est ista quæ ascendit per desertum
sicut virgula fumi ex aromatibus myrrhæ,
et thuris, et universi pulveris pigmentarii ?
   ⁷ En lectulum Salomonis sexaginta fortes ambiunt
ex fortissimis Israël,
   ⁸ omnes tenentes gladios, et ad bella doctissimi :
uniuscujusque ensis super femur suum
propter timores nocturnos.
   ⁹ Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon
de lignis Libani ;
   ¹⁰ columnas ejus fecit argenteas,
reclinatorium aureum, ascensum purpureum ;
media caritate constravit,
propter filias Jerusalem.
   ¹¹ Egredimini et videte, filiæ Sion,
regem Salomonem in diademate quo coronavit illum mater sua
in die desponsationis illius,
et in die lætitiæ cordis ejus.]