< 雅歌 1 >
THE song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
3 你的香氣芳怡人,你的令名香液四射,為此少女都愛慕你。
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
4 願你拉著我隨你奔跑! 君王,願你引我進你的內室;我們都要因你歡樂踴躍,讚歎你那詌於酒的愛撫;怪不得眾少女都愛慕你!
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
5 耶路撒冷女郎! 我雖黑,郤秀麗,有如刻達爾的帳棚,又似撒耳瑪的營幕。
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
6 你們不要怪我黑,是太陽曬黑了我。我母親的兒子向我發怒,派我去看守葡萄園,我郤沒有去看守。
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
7 我心愛的! 請告訴我:你在那兒放羊﹖中午又在那兒臥羊﹖別令我在你伴侶的羊群間,獨自徘徊!◆耶京女郎:
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
8 女中的佳麗! 妳若不知道,出去跟蹤羊群的足跡,靠近牧人的帳棚,牧放妳的小羊。◆新郎:
If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.
9 我的愛卿! 我看妳好似牝馬,套在法郎的御車上。
I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
10 妳的雙頰配以耳環,妳的頸項繞以珠鏈,何其美麗!
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
14 我的愛人有如鳳仙花,生在恩革狄葡萄園中。◆新郎:
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.
15 我的愛卿,妳多麼美麗! 妳的雙眼有如鴿眼。◆新娘:
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
16 我的愛人,你多麼英俊,多麼可愛! 我們的未床榻,是青綠的草地。◆新郎:
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.