نَشِيد الأنشاد 6

١ 1 (بَنَاتُ أُورُشَلِيمَ): أَيْنَ ذَهَبَ حَبِيبُكِ أَيَّتُهَا الْجَمِيلَةُ بَيْنَ النِّسَاءِ؟ إِلَى أَيْنَ تَحَوَّلَ حَبِيبُكِ فَنَبْحَثَ عَنْهُ مَعَكِ؟

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest amongst women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

٢ 2 (الْمَحْبُوبَةُ): قَدِ انْطَلَقَ حَبِيبِي إِلَى جَنَّتِهِ، إِلَى خَمَائِلِ الأَطْيَابِ لِيَرْعَى فِي الرَّوْضَاتِ وَيَقْطِفَ السَّوْسَنَ.

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

٣ 3 أَنَا لِحَبِيبِي، وَحَبِيبِي لِي، وَهُوَ يَرْعَى بَيْنَ السَّوْسَنِ.

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses amongst the lilies.

٤ 4 (المُحِبُّ): أَنْتِ جَمِيلَةٌ يَا حَبِيبَتِي كَتِرْصَةَ، حَسْنَاءُ كَأُورُشَلِيمَ، وَجَلِيلَةٌ كَجَيْشٍ يَرْفَعُ أَعْلامَهُ.

You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

٥ 5 أَشِيحِي بِعَيْنَيْكِ عَنِّي فَقَدْ قَهَرَتَانِي. شَعْرُكِ كَقَطِيعِ مَاعِزٍ مُنْحَدِرٍ مِنْ جِلْعَادَ.

Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.

٦ 6 أَسْنَانُكِ فِي بَيَاضِهَا كَقَطِيعِ غَنَمٍ خَارِجٍ مِنَ الاغْتِسَالِ؛ كُلُّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهَا ذَاتُ تَوْأَمٍ وَمَا فِيهَا عَقِيمٌ.

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing, of which every one has twins; not one is bereaved amongst them.

٧ 7 خَدَّاكِ تَحْتَ نَقَابِكِ كَفِلْقَتَيْ رُمَّانَةٍ.

Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

٨ 8 هُنَاكَ سِتُّونَ مَلِكَةً وَثَمَانُونَ سُرِّيَّةً وَعَذَارَى لَا يُحْصَى لَهُنَّ عَدَدٌ.

There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

٩ 9 لَكِنَّكِ يَا حَمَامَتِي يَا كَامِلَتِي فَرِيدَةٌ، الابْنَةُ الْوَحِيدَةُ لأُمِّهَا، الأَعَزُّ عَلَى مَنْ أَنْجَبَتْهَا. رَأَتْهَا الْعَذَارَى فَطَوَّبْنَهَا، وَشَاهَدَتْهَا الْمَلِكَاتُ وَالسَّرَارِي فَمَدَحْنَهَا.

My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favourite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

١٠ 10 مَنْ هَذِهِ الطَّالِعَةُ كَالْفَجْرِ، الْجَمِيلَةُ كَالْبَدْرِ، الْمُشْرِقَةُ كَالشَّمْسِ، الْجَلِيلَةُ كَجَيْشٍ يَرْفَعُ أَعْلامَهُ؟

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

١١ 11 (الْمَحْبُوبَةُ): نَزَلْتُ إِلَى حَدِيقَةِ الْجَوْزِ لأَرَى ثَمَرَ الْوَادِي الْجَدِيدَ، وَأَنْظُرَ هَلْ أَزْهَرَ الْكَرْمُ وَنَوَّرَ الرُّمَّانُ؟

I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

١٢ 12 وَقَبْلَ أَنْ أُدْرِكَ مَا يَجْرِي وَجَدْتُ نَفْسِي بَيْنَ أُمَرَاءِ قَوْمِي فَهَرَبْتُ.

Without realising it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.

١٣ 13 (بَنَاتُ أُورُشَلِيمَ): ارْجِعِي، ارْجِعِي يَا شُولَمِّيثُ، اِرْجِعِي، اِرْجِعِي لِنَتَأَمَّلَ فِيكِ. (الْمَحْبُوبَةُ): مَاذَا تَرَوْنَ فِي شُولَمِّيثَ؟ (المُحِبُّ): مِثْلَ رَقْصِ صَفَّيْنِ!

Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?