Song of Solomon 3

1 By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

夜われ床にありて我心の愛する者をたづねしが尋ねたれども得ず

2 I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

我おもへらく今おきて邑をまはりありき わが心の愛する者を街衢あるひは大路にてたづねんと 乃ちこれを尋ねたれども得ざりき

3 The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

邑をまはりありく夜巡者らわれに遇ければ 汝らわが心の愛する者を見しやと問ひ

4 I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.

これに別れて過ゆき間もなくわが心の愛する者の遇たれば 之をひきとめて放さず 遂にわが母の家にともなひゆき 我を產し者の室にいりぬ

5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires.

ヱルサレムの女子等よ 我なんぢらに獐と野の鹿とをさし誓ひて請ふ 愛のおのづから起る時まで殊更に喚起し且つ醒すなかれ

6 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?

この沒藥乳香など商人のもろもろの薫物をもて身をかをらせ 煙の柱のごとくして荒野より來る者は誰ぞや

7 Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.

視よ こはソロモンの乗輿にして 勇士六十人その周圍にあり イスラエルの勇士なり

8 They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.

みな刀劍を執り 戰鬪を善す 各人腰に刀劍を帶て夜の警誡に備ふ

9 King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon.

ソロモン王レバノンの木をもて己のために輿をつくれり

10 He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.

その柱は白銀 その欄杆は黄金 その座は紫色にて作り その内部にはイスラエルの女子等が愛をもて繍たる物を張つく

11 Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.

シオンの女子等よ 出きたりてソロモン王を見よ かれは婚姻の日 心の喜べる日にその母の己にかうぶらしし冠冕を戴けり