Cânticos 3

1 By night on my bed,

I sought him whom my soul loves.

I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

2 I will get up now, and go about the city;

in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves.

I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

3 The watchmen who go about the city found me;

"Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"

4 I had scarcely passed from them,

when I found him whom my soul loves.

I held him, and would not let him go,

until I had brought him into my mother’s house,

into the room of her who conceived me.

5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,

by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,

that you not stir up nor awaken love,

until it so desires.

6 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke,

perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,

with all spices of the merchant?

7 Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage!

Sixty mighty men are around it,

of the mighty men of Israel.

8 They all handle the sword, and are expert in war.

Every man has his sword on his thigh,

because of fear in the night.

9 King Solomon made himself a carriage

of the wood of Lebanon.

10 He made its pillars of silver,

its bottom of gold, its seat of purple,

the middle of it being paved with love,

from the daughters of Jerusalem.

11 Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon,

with the crown with which his mother has crowned him,

in the day of his weddings,

in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Te Moemoeā o te Aroha

Te Wahine

1 I te pō, i runga i tōku moenga,

i rapua e ahau tā tōku wairua i aroha ai;

i rapua e ahau, heoi kīhai i kitea.

2 Ka mea ahau, "Ka whakatika ahau āianei, ka kōpikopiko i roto i te pā,

i ngā huarahi, i ngā waharoa,

ka rapu i tā tōku wairua i aroha ai."

Rapua ana ia e ahau, heoi kīhai i kitea.

3 I tūtaki ki ahau ngā kaitiaki

e kōpikopiko nei i roto i te pā.

"Anō rā ko ahau ki a rātou,

i kite rānei koutou i tā tōku wairua e aroha nei?"

4 Pahemo kau atu rātou,

kua tūtaki ahau ki tā tōku wairua e aroha nei.

Kei te pupuri ahau i a ia, kīhai hoki ia i tukua atu e ahau,

ā kawea noatia atu ia e ahau ki te whare o tōku whaea,

ki te rūma o te wahine i whānau ai ahau.

5 He kī tēnei nāku ki a koutou, e ngā tamāhine o Hiruhārama,

i te aroaro o ngā anaterope, o ngā hāta o te pārae:

kaua e whakaoho, kaua e whakaara i tāku e aroha nei,

kia pai rā anō ia.

Te Whakatata mai o te Tāne me ōna Hoa

Ngā Hoa

6 Ko wai tēnei e whakaputa mai nei i te koraha,

ānō ko ngā pou paowa,

kakara tonu i te maira, i te parakihe,

i ngā puehu katoa a te kaihoko?

7 Nanā, ko te amo o Horomona;

e toru tekau ngā tāngata mārohirohi i tētahi taha,

i tētahi taha, nō ngā mārohirohi o Īharaira.

8 He hunga mau hoari rātou katoa,

he mea whakaako ki te whawhai;

kei tōna hūwhā anō te hoari a tēnei, a tēnei,

i te wehi hoki i te pō.

9 I hangā e Kīngi Horomona he amo mōna,

nō Repanōna te rākau.

10 Ko ōna pou i hangā e ia ki te hiriwa,

he kōura a raro, he pāpura tōna nohoanga,

he mea whāriki a waenganui ki te aroha,

nō ngā tamāhine o Hiruhārama.

11 Haere, e ngā tamāhine o Hiona,

ka mātakitaki i a Kīngi Horomona,

me te karauna anō i karaunatia ai ia e tōna whaea

i te rā o tōna mārenatanga,

i te rā hoki i koa ai tōna ngākau.