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 loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

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 get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

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 who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

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：

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who 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, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires.

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 who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices 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 Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around 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 has his sword on his thigh, because of fear 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 carriage 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 its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved 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 out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.