Song of Songs 5

1 Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yes, brethren, drink abundantly.

◆新郎：我的妹妹，我的新娘! 我進入了我的花園，採了我的沒藥和香草，吃了我的蜂巢和蜂蜜，喝了我的酒和奶。我的朋友! 請你們吃，請你們喝；我親愛的，請你們痛飲![第四幕：愛情的試探和鞏固]◆新娘：

2 I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, [saying], Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

我身雖睡，我心卻醒；我的愛人在敲門。◆新郎： 我的妹妹，我的愛卿， 我的鴿子，我的完人，請給我開門! 我的頭上滿了露水，我的髮辮滿了露珠。◆新娘：

3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?

我已脫下長衣，怎能再穿﹖我己洗了腳，怎能再杇﹖

4 My kinsman put forth his hand by the hole [of the door], and my belly moved for him.

我的愛人從門孔中伸進手來，我的五內大為感動。

5 I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

我起來給我的愛人開門，一摸門閂，我的手就滴下沒藥，滴下純正的沒藥。

6 I opened to my kinsman; my kinsman was gone: my soul failed at his speech: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he answered me not.

我給我的愛人開了門，我的愛人卻轉身走了；一見他走了，我妳不傷心。我尋覓，卻沒有找著；我呼喚他，他卻不答應。

7 The watchman that go their rounds in the city found me, they struck me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

巡行城市的守衛遇見了我，打傷了我；看守城牆的人，奪去了我身上的外衣

8 I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if you should find my kinsman, what are you to say to him? That I am wounded with love.

耶路撒冷女郎! 妳們若遇見了我的愛人，妳們要告訴他什麼﹖我懇求妳們告訴他：「我因愛成疾。」◆耶京女郎：

9 What is your kinsman [more] than [another] kinsman, O you beautiful amongst women? what is your kinsman [more] than [another] kinsman, that you have so charged us?

妳這女中極美麗的啊! 我的愛人有什麼勝過其他的愛人﹖妳的愛人有什麼勝過其他的愛人，致使妳這懇求我們﹖◆新娘：

10 My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads.

我的愛人，皎潔紅潤，超越萬人。

11 His head is [as] very fine gold, his locks are flowing, black as a raven.

他的頭顱金碧輝煌，他的髮辮有如棕枝，漆黑有如烏鴉。

12 His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools.

他的眼睛，有如站在溪旁的鵓鴿的眼；他的牙齒在奶中洗過，按在牙床上。

13 His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.

他的兩頰有如香花畦，又如芳草台；他的嘴脣有如百合花，滴流純正的沒藥。

14 His hands are as turned gold set with beryl: his belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone.

他的手臂有如金管，鑲有塔爾史士寶石；他的軀幹是一塊象牙，鑲有碧玉

15 His legs are marble pillars set on golden sockets: his form is as Libanus, choice as the cedars.

他的兩腿像一對大理石，置於純金座上；他的容貌彷彿黎巴嫩，壯麗如同香柏樹。

16 His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.

他滿面香甜，全然可愛。耶路撒冷女郎! 這就是我的愛人，這就是我的良友。