雅歌 3

1 我夜間躺臥在床上， 尋找我心所愛的； 我尋找他，卻尋不見。

One night when I was lying in bed, I longed for the one I love. I longed for him, but he was nowhere to be found.

2 我說：我要起來，遊行城中， 在街市上，在寬闊處， 尋找我心所愛的。 我尋找他，卻尋不見。

So I said to myself, “I will get up now and go through the city, looking in its streets and squares for the one I love.” I looked for him but I didn't find him.

3 城中巡邏看守的人遇見我； 我問他們：你們看見我心所愛的沒有？

The watchmen found me as they went through the city. “Have you seen the one I love?” I asked them.

4 我剛離開他們就遇見我心所愛的。 我拉住他，不容他走， 領他入我母家， 到懷我者的內室。

Only a little farther on after I'd passed them I found my love! I held him close and would not let him go until I'd brought him to my mother's house, to the room of the one who conceived me.

5 耶路撒冷的眾女子啊， 我指着羚羊或田野的母鹿囑咐你們： 不要驚動、不要叫醒我所親愛的， 等他自己情願。

Women of Jerusalem, swear to me by the gazelles or the wild deer that you won't disturb our love until the right time.

6 那從曠野上來、形狀如煙柱、 以沒藥和乳香並商人各樣香粉薰的是誰呢？

Who is this coming in from the wilderness like a plume of smoke, like a burning sacrifice scented with myrrh and frankincense, with all kinds of imported perfumed powders?

7 看哪，是所羅門的轎； 四圍有六十個勇士， 都是以色列中的勇士；

Look, it's Solomon's sedan chair, accompanied by sixty of Israel's best warriors.

8 手都持刀，善於爭戰， 腰間佩刀，防備夜間有驚慌。

All of them are expert swordsmen who have battle experience. They each carry a sword strapped to the thigh, ready for any night-time attacks.

9 所羅門王用黎巴嫩木 為自己製造一乘華轎。

(Solomon's sedan chair was made for him with wood from Lebanon.

10 轎柱是用銀做的， 轎底是用金做的； 坐墊是紫色的， 其中所鋪的乃耶路撒冷眾女子的愛情。

Its posts were covered in silver, and the back was covered in gold. The seat cushion was purple. The interior was lovingly decorated.) Women of Jerusalem,

11 錫安的眾女子啊， 你們出去觀看所羅門王！ 頭戴冠冕，就是在他婚筵的日子、 心中喜樂的時候，他母親給他戴上的。

come out! Look, women of Zion! See King Solomon wearing the crown that his mother placed on his head on his wedding day, his happiest day.