雅歌 3

1 我夜间躺卧在床上， 寻找我心所爱的； 我寻找他，却寻不见。

On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!

2 我说：我要起来，游行城中， 在街市上，在宽阔处， 寻找我心所爱的。 我寻找他，却寻不见。

— 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 城中巡逻看守的人遇见我； 我问他们：你们看见我心所爱的没有？

The watchmen have found me, (Who are going round about the city), 'Him whom my soul have loved saw ye?'

4 我刚离开他们就遇见我心所爱的。 我拉住他，不容他走， 领他入我母家， 到怀我者的内室。

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 耶路撒冷的众女子啊， 我指着羚羊或田野的母鹿嘱咐你们： 不要惊动、不要叫醒我所亲爱的， 等他自己情愿。

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 那从旷野上来、形状如烟柱、 以没药和乳香并商人各样香粉薰的是谁呢？

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 看哪，是所罗门的轿； 四围有六十个勇士， 都是以色列中的勇士；

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

8 手都持刀，善于争战， 腰间佩刀，防备夜间有惊慌。

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

9 所罗门王用黎巴嫩木 为自己制造一乘华轿。

A palanquin king Solomon made for himself, Of the wood of Lebanon,

10 轿柱是用银做的， 轿底是用金做的； 坐垫是紫色的， 其中所铺的乃耶路撒冷众女子的爱情。

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 锡安的众女子啊， 你们出去观看所罗门王！ 头戴冠冕，就是在他婚筵的日子、 心中喜乐的时候，他母亲给他戴上的。

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!