Song of Songs 3

1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he hearkened not to me.

夜間我在床上，尋覓我心愛的；我尋覓，卻沒有找著。

2 I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the market-places, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.

我遂起來，環城巡行．在市街上，在廣場，尋覓我心愛的；我尋覓，卻沒有找著。

3 The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. [I said], Have ye seen him whom my soul loves?

城裏巡夜的衛兵，遇見了我，我便問道：「你們看見我心愛的嗎﹖」

4 [It was] as a little [while] after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

我剛離開他們，就找到了我人愛的；我拉住他不放，領他到我母親家中，到懷孕我者的內室。◆新郎：

5 I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye rouse not nor awake [my] love, until he please.

耶路撒冷女郎! 我指著田野間的羚羊或牝鹿，懇求你們，不要驚醒，不要喚醒的的愛，讓她自便吧![第三幕：愛情的成熟]◆耶京女郎：

6 Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?

那從曠野上來，狀如煙柱，發放沒藥、乳香以及各種舶來香料香氣的，是什麼﹖

7 Behold Solomon's bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.

撒羅滿的御轎，有六十勇士環繞，全是以色列的精旅，

8 They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every man [has] his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night.

個個手持利刃，善於戰鬥，腰間各配刀劍，以防夜襲。

9 King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.

撒羅滿王用黎巴嫩香柏製造了一個寶座，

10 He made the pillars of it silver, the bottom of it gold, the covering of it scarlet, in the midst of it a pavement of love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

銀柱金頂，紫錦墊褥，中間繡花，是耶路撒冷女子愛情的結晶。

11 Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and behold king Solomon, with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him, in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

熙雍女郎! 出來觀看撒羅滿王，他頭帶王冠，是他母親在他新婚歡樂之日，給他帶上的。