雅歌 3

1 夜間我在床上，尋覓我心愛的；我尋覓，卻沒有找著。

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth; I sought him, but I found him not.

2 我遂起來，環城巡行．在市街上，在廣場，尋覓我心愛的；我尋覓，卻沒有找著。

'I will rise now, and go about the city, in the streets and in the broad ways, I will seek him whom my soul loveth.' I sought him, but I found him not.

3 城裏巡夜的衛兵，遇見了我，我便問道：「你們看見我心愛的嗎﹖」

The watchmen that go about the city found me: 'Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?'

4 我剛離開他們，就找到了我人愛的；我拉住他不放，領他到我母親家中，到懷孕我者的內室。◆新郎：

Scarce had I passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

5 耶路撒冷女郎! 我指著田野間的羚羊或牝鹿，懇求你們，不要驚醒，不要喚醒的的愛，讓她自便吧![第三幕：愛情的成熟]◆耶京女郎：

'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.'

6 那從曠野上來，狀如煙柱，發放沒藥、乳香以及各種舶來香料香氣的，是什麼﹖

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

7 撒羅滿的御轎，有六十勇士環繞，全是以色列的精旅，

Behold, it is the litter of Solomon; threescore mighty men are about it, of the mighty men of Israel.

8 個個手持利刃，善於戰鬥，腰間各配刀劍，以防夜襲。

They all handle the sword, and are expert in war; every man hath his sword upon his thigh, because of dread in the night.

9 撒羅滿王用黎巴嫩香柏製造了一個寶座，

King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon.

10 銀柱金頂，紫錦墊褥，中間繡花，是耶路撒冷女子愛情的結晶。

He made the pillars thereof of silver, the top thereof of gold, the seat of it of purple, the inside thereof being inlaid with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.

11 熙雍女郎! 出來觀看撒羅滿王，他頭帶王冠，是他母親在他新婚歡樂之日，給他帶上的。

Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and gaze upon king Solomon, even upon the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.