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3 ΑΣΜΑSONG OF SOLOMON - Brenton|RSVReference
1Ἑπὶ κοίτην μου ἐν νυξὶν
ἐζήτησα ὃν ἠγάπησεν ἡ ψυχή μου,
ἐζήτησα αὐτὸν καὶ οὐχ εὗρον αὐτόν,
ἐκάλεσα αὐτόν, καὶ οὐχ ὑπήκουσέν μου.
 By night on my bed
I sought him whom my soul loves:
I sought him, but found him not;
I called him, but he hearkened not to me.		 
2ἀναστήσομαι δὴ καὶ κυκλώσω ἐν τῇ πόλει,
ἐν ταῖς ἀγοραῖς καὶ ἐν ταῖς πλατείαις,
καὶ ζητήσω ὃν ἠγάπησεν ἡ ψυχή μου·
ἐζήτησα αὐτὸν καὶ οὐχ εὗρον αὐτόν.
 I will rise now, and go about in the city,
in the market-places, and in the streets,
and I will seek him whom my soul loves:
I sought him, but I found him not.		 
3εὕροσάν με οἱ τηροῦντες οἱ κυκλοῦντες ἐν τῇ πόλει
Μὴ ὃν ἠγάπησεν ἡ ψυχή μου εἴδετε;
 The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. [I said], Have ye seen him whom my soul loves? 
4ὡς μικρὸν ὅτε παρῆλθον ἀπ' αὐτῶν,
ἕως οὗ εὗρον ὃν ἠγάπησεν ἡ ψυχή μου·
ἐκράτησα αὐτὸν καὶ οὐκ ἀφήσω αὐτόν,
ἕως οὗ εἰσήγαγον αὐτὸν εἰς οἶκον μητρός μου
καὶ εἰς ταμίειον τῆς συλλαβούσης με.
 [It was] as a little [while] after I parted from them,
that I found him whom my soul loves:
I held him, and did not let him go,
until I brought him into my mother's house,
and into the chamber of her that conceived me.		 
5Ὥρκισα ὑμᾶς, θυγατέρες Ιερουσαλημ,
ἐν ταῖς δυνάμεσιν καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἰσχύσεσιν τοῦ ἀγροῦ,
ἐὰν ἐγείρητε καὶ ἐξεγείρητε τὴν ἀγάπην, ἕως ἂν θελήσῃ.
 I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the powers and by the virtues of the field,
that ye rouse not nor awake [my] love, until he please.		 
6Τίς αὕτη ἡ ἀναβαίνουσα ἀπὸ τῆς ἐρήμου,
ὡς στελέχη καπνοῦ τεθυμιαμένη
σμύρναν καὶ λίβανον ἀπὸ πάντων κονιορτῶν μυρεψοῦ;
 Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all powders of the perfumer?		The third song. She. Sg.3.6-11
7ἰδοὺ ἡ κλίνη τοῦ Σαλωμων,
ἑξήκοντα δυνατοὶ κύκλῳ αὐτῆς
ἀπὸ δυνατῶν Ισραηλ,
 Behold Solomon's bed;
sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.		 
8πάντες κατέχοντες ῥομφαίαν,
δεδιδαγμένοι πόλεμον·
ἀνὴρ ῥομφαία αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ μηρὸν αὐτοῦ
ἀπὸ θάμβους ἐν νυξίν.
 They all hold a sword,
being expert in war:
every man [has] his sword upon his thigh
because of fear by night.		 
9φορεῖον ἐποίησεν ἑαυτῷ ὁ βασιλεὺς Σαλωμων
ἀπὸ ξύλων τοῦ Λιβάνου,
 King Solomon made himself a litter
of woods of Lebanon.		 
10στύλους αὐτοῦ ἐποίησεν ἀργύριον
καὶ ἀνάκλιτον αὐτοῦ χρύσεον,
ἐπίβασις αὐτοῦ πορφυρᾶ,
ἐντὸς αὐτοῦ λιθόστρωτον,
ἀγάπην ἀπὸ θυγατέρων Ιερουσαλημ.
 He made the pillars of it silver,
the bottom of it gold,
the covering of it scarlet,
in the midst of it a pavement of love,
for the daughters of Jerusalem.		 
11ἐξέλθατε καὶ ἴδετε
ἐν τῷ βασιλεῖ Σαλωμων
ἐν τῷ στεφάνῳ, ᾧ ἐστεφάνωσεν αὐτὸν ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ
ἐν ἡμέρᾳ νυμφεύσεως αὐτοῦ
καὶ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ εὐφροσύνης καρδίας αὐτοῦ.
 Go forth, ye daughters of Sion,
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.		 
    << | Song of Solomon: 3 | >>  

Notes:

The Old Testament in Greek is Rahlf's LXX available in Word format at the Tyndale website, adapted to database format.
The alternative readings of the LXX - Judges (Alexandrinus), Daniel, Susanna & Bel (LXX received text), and Tobit (Sinaiticus [not printed in Swete]) as separate book references so that they can be viewed as an alternative text in parallel with the primary text.
(I have reversed the Swete presentation for Daniel, Susanna, Bel by listing in the later Theodotion LXX text as the main text. )
The LXX cross references to the Hebrew Bible have been extensively revised using those set out in Swete's 'Old Testament in Greek' publications between 1894 and 1909, amended in part to agree with verses as printed in the Biblia Hebraica (1937 publication).
Some verse cross references in Swete's had to be amended to agree with the BHS verse numbering, and there may well be some mismatches that I haven't yet picked up on. (If you find any errors please e-mail me.)
Hebrew Bible has been adapted from the BHS in Word format at Tyndale.
The Septuagint in English ( translated by Sir Lancelot CL Brenton) - is used here only for the books of the Hebrew Bible.
The Revised Standard Version: This generally follows the Hebrew Bible for the canonical OT so I have included the RSV Aprocrypha for the Greek books not covered by Brenton.
Ecclesiasticus - Sirach Chs.30-36: The text of these chapters from 30.24 to 36.16, is disordered.
I have followed Swete's verse numbering for the greek text.
Also, the RSV verse numbering differs from the NRSV.
The NRSV appears to have followed Swete's numbering here, so I have re-ordered the RSV to agree with both the NRSV & Swete for these chapters.
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