雅歌 3

1 夜間我在床上，尋覓我心愛的；我尋覓，卻沒有找著。

On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and 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。

— Pray, let me rise, and go round the city, In the streets and in the broad places, I seek him whom my soul hath loved! — I sought him, and 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 have found me, (Who are going round about the city), 'Him whom my soul have loved saw ye?'

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：

But a little I passed on from them, Till I found him whom my soul hath loved! I seized him, and let him not go, Till I brought him in unto the house of my mother — And 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 have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she 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 coming up from the wilderness, Like palm-trees of smoke, Perfumed [with] myrrh and frankincense, From every powder 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，

Lo, his couch, that [is] Solomon's, Sixty mighty ones [are] around it, Of the mighty of Israel,

8 個個手持利刃，善於戰鬥，腰間各配刀劍，以防夜襲。

All of them holding sword, taught of battle, Each his sword by his thigh, for fear at night.

9 撒羅滿王用黎巴嫩香柏製造了一個寶座，

A palanquin king Solomon made for himself, 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。

Its pillars he made of silver, Its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, Its midst lined [with] love, By 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, and look, ye daughters of Zion, On king Solomon, with the crown, With which his mother crowned him, In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the joy of his heart!