نَشِيد الأنشاد 3

١ 1 (الْمَحْبُوبَةُ): طَوَالَ اللَّيْلِ عَلَى مَضْجَعِي طَلَبْتُ بِشَوْقٍ مَنْ تُحِبُّهُ نَفْسِي، فَمَا وَجَدْتُهُ.

On my couch during the nights I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

٢ 2 سَأَنْهَضُ الآنَ أَطُوفُ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ وَأَتَجَوَّلُ فِي شَوَارِعِهَا وَسَاحَاتِهَا، أَلْتَمِسُ مَنْ تُحِبُّهُ نَفْسِي. وَهَكَذَا رُحْتُ أَلْتَمِسُهُ فَمَا وَجَدْتُهُ.

Oh, I must rise now, and go about in the city in the streets, and in the open places; I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

٣ 3 وَعَثَرَ عَلَيَّ الْحُرَّاسُ الْمُتَجَوِّلُونَ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ، فَسَأَلْتُ: أَشَاهَدْتُمْ مَنْ تُحِبُّهُ نَفْسِي؟

Then found me the watchmen that walked about the city. “Have ye seen him whom my soul loveth?”

٤ 4 وَمَا كِدْتُ أَتَجَاوَزُهُمْ حَتَّى وَجَدْتُ مَنْ تُحِبُّهُ نَفْسِي، فَتَشَبَّثْتُ بِهِ وَلَمْ أُطْلِقْهُ حَتَّى أَدْخَلْتُهُ بَيْتَ أُمِّي وَمُخْدَعَ مَنْ حَمَلَتْ بِي.

Scarcely had I passed away from them, when I found him whom my soul loveth: I laid fast hold of him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that had born me.

٥ 5 أَسْتَحْلِفُكُنَّ يَا بَنَاتِ أُورُشَلِيمَ بِظِبَاءِ الصَّحْرَاءِ وَأَيَائِلِهَا أَلّا تُوْقِظْنَ أَوْ تُنَبِّهْنَ الْحَبِيبَ حَتَّى يَشَاءَ.

I adjure you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor excite my love, till it please [to come of itself].—

٦ 6 (نَشِيدُ بَنَاتِ أُورُشَلِيمَ): مَنْ هَذِهِ الصَّاعِدَةُ مِنَ الْقَفْرِ كَأَعْمِدَةٍ مِنْ دُخَانٍ مُعَطَّرَةٍ بِالْمُرِّ وَاللُّبَانِ وَكُلِّ عُطُورِ التَّاجِرِ؟

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spicy powders of the merchant?

٧ 7 هَا هِيَ أَرِيكَةُ سُلَيْمَانَ يَحِفُّ بِهِ سِتُّونَ بَطَلاً مِنْ جَبَابِرَةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

Behold, it is the bed, which is Solomon's, sixty valiant men are round about it, of the valiant ones of Israel.

٨ 8 جَمِيعُهُمْ مُدَجَّجُونَ بِالسُّيُوفِ مُتَمَرِّسُونَ عَلَى الْحَربِ، تَتَدَلَّى سُيُوفُهُمْ عَلَى جَوَانِبِهِمْ تَأَهُّباً لأَهْوَالِ اللَّيْلِ.

All of them are girded with the sword, are expert in war; every one hath his sword upon his thigh, because of the terror in the nights.

٩ 9 قَدْ صَنَعَ الْمَلِكُ سُلَيْمَانُ كُرْسِيَّ الْعَرْشِ مِنْ خَشَبِ لُبْنَانَ.

A palanquin did king Solomon make for himself out of the wood of Lebanon.

١٠ 10 وَصَنَعَ أَعْمِدَتَهُ فِضَّةً وَمُتَّكَأَهُ ذَهَباً وَمَقْعَدَهُ أُرْجُوَاناً، وَغِطَاؤُهْ الدَّاخِلِيُّ رَصَّعَتْهُ بَنَاتُ أُورُشَلِيمَ مَحَبَّةً.

The pillars thereof he made of silver, its coverlid of gold, its seat of purple: its inner part is arranged lovely, by the daughters of Jerusalem.

١١ 11 (الْمَحْبُوبَةُ): اُخْرُجْنَ يَا بَنَاتِ صِهْيَوْنَ وَانْظُرْنَ الْمَلِكَ سُلَيْمَانَ مُكَلَّلاً بِالتَّاجِ الَّذِي تَوَّجَتْهُ بِهِ أَمُّهُ فِي يَوْمِ عُرْسِهِ، فِي يَوْمِ بَهَجَةِ قَلْبِهِ.

Go forth, and look, O ye daughters of Zion, on king Solomon, with the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him on the day of his espousals, and on the day of the joy in his heart.