< 雅歌 5 >
1 ◆新郎:我的妹妹,我的新娘! 我進入了我的花園,採了我的沒藥和香草,吃了我的蜂巢和蜂蜜,喝了我的酒和奶。我的朋友! 請你們吃,請你們喝;我親愛的,請你們痛飲![第四幕:愛情的試探和鞏固]◆新娘:
I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.
2 我身雖睡,我心卻醒;我的愛人在敲門。◆新郎: 我的妹妹,我的愛卿, 我的鴿子,我的完人,請給我開門! 我的頭上滿了露水,我的髮辮滿了露珠。◆新娘:
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
3 我已脫下長衣,怎能再穿﹖我己洗了腳,怎能再杇﹖
I have taken off my robe— must I put it back on? I have washed my feet— must I soil them again?
My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
5 我起來給我的愛人開門,一摸門閂,我的手就滴下沒藥,滴下純正的沒藥。
I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
6 我給我的愛人開了門,我的愛人卻轉身走了;一見他走了,我妳不傷心。我尋覓,卻沒有找著;我呼喚他,他卻不答應。
I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
7 巡行城市的守衛遇見了我,打傷了我;看守城牆的人,奪去了我身上的外衣
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.
8 耶路撒冷女郎! 妳們若遇見了我的愛人,妳們要告訴他什麼﹖我懇求妳們告訴他:「我因愛成疾。」◆耶京女郎:
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
9 妳這女中極美麗的啊! 我的愛人有什麼勝過其他的愛人﹖妳的愛人有什麼勝過其他的愛人,致使妳這懇求我們﹖◆新娘:
How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?
My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
11 他的頭顱金碧輝煌,他的髮辮有如棕枝,漆黑有如烏鴉。
His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
12 他的眼睛,有如站在溪旁的鵓鴿的眼;他的牙齒在奶中洗過,按在牙床上。
His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
13 他的兩頰有如香花畦,又如芳草台;他的嘴脣有如百合花,滴流純正的沒藥。
His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
14 他的手臂有如金管,鑲有塔爾史士寶石;他的軀幹是一塊象牙,鑲有碧玉
His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
15 他的兩腿像一對大理石,置於純金座上;他的容貌彷彿黎巴嫩,壯麗如同香柏樹。
His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
16 他滿面香甜,全然可愛。耶路撒冷女郎! 這就是我的愛人,這就是我的良友。
His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.