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。

In my bed by night I sought him that my soule loued: I sought him, but I found him not.

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。

I will rise therefore nowe, and goe about in the citie, by the streetes and by the open places, and wil seeke him that my soule loueth: I sought him, but I found him not.

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 that went about the citie, found mee: to whome I said, Haue you seene him, whome my soule loueth?

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。

When I had past a litle from them, then I found him whom my soule loued: I tooke holde on him and left him not, till I had brought him vnto my mothers house into the chamber of her that conceiued 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。

I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, by the roes and by the hindes of the fielde, that ye stirre not vp, nor waken my loue vntill she please.

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 shee that commeth vp out of the wildernes like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrhe and incense, and with all the spices of the marchant?

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；

Beholde his bed, which is Salomons: threescore strong men are round about it, of the valiant men of Israel.

8 手都持刀，善於爭戰， 腰間佩刀，防備夜間有驚慌。

They all handle the sworde, and are expert in warre, euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh for the feare by night.

9 所羅門王用黎巴嫩木 為自己製造一乘華轎。

King Salomon made himselfe a palace of the trees of 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。

Hee made the pillars thereof of siluer, and the pauement thereof of gold, the hangings thereof of purple, whose middes was paued with the loue of the daughters of Ierusalem.

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 forth, ye daughters of Zion, and behold the King Salomon with the crowne, wherewith his mother crowned him in ye day of his mariage, and in the day of the gladnes of his heart.