< Song of Solomon 3 >

1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
فِي ٱللَّيْلِ عَلَى فِرَاشِي طَلَبْتُ مَنْ تُحِبُّهُ نَفْسِي. طَلَبْتُهُ فَمَا وَجَدْتُهُ.١
2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
إِنِّي أَقُومُ وَأَطُوفُ فِي ٱلْمَدِينَةِ، فِي ٱلْأَسْوَاقِ وَفِي ٱلشَّوَارِعِ، أَطْلُبُ مَنْ تُحِبُّهُ نَفْسِي. طَلَبْتُهُ فَمَا وَجَدْتُهُ.٢
3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw you him whom my soul loves?
وَجَدَنِي ٱلْحَرَسُ ٱلطَّائِفُ فِي ٱلْمَدِينَةِ، فَقُلْتُ: «أَرَأَيْتُمْ مَنْ تُحِبُّهُ نَفْسِي؟»٣
4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but 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, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
فَمَا جَاوَزْتُهُمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا حَتَّى وَجَدْتُ مَنْ تُحِبُّهُ نَفْسِي، فَأَمْسَكْتُهُ وَلَمْ أَرْخِهِ، حَتَّى أَدْخَلْتُهُ بَيْتَ أُمِّي وَحُجْرَةَ مَنْ حَبِلَتْ بِي.٤
5 I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that you stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
أُحَلِّفُكُنَّ يَا بَنَاتِ أُورُشَلِيمَ بِٱلظِّبَاءِ وَبِأَيَائِلِ ٱلْحَقْلِ، أَلَّا تُيَقِّظْنَ وَلَا تُنَبِّهْنَ ٱلْحَبِيبَ حَتَّى يَشَاءَ.٥
6 Who is this that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
مَنْ هَذِهِ ٱلطَّالِعَةُ مِنَ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ كَأَعْمِدَةٍ مِنْ دُخَانٍ، مُعَطَّرَةً بِٱلْمُرِّ وَٱللُّبَانِ وَبِكُلِّ أَذِرَّةِ ٱلتَّاجِرِ؟٦
7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; three score valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
هُوَذَا تَخْتُ سُلَيْمَانَ حَوْلَهُ سِتُّونَ جَبَّارًا مِنْ جَبَابِرَةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.٧
8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man has his sword on his thigh because of fear in the night.
كُلُّهُمْ قَابِضُونَ سُيُوفًا وَمُتَعَلِّمُونَ ٱلْحَرْبَ. كُلُّ رَجُلٍ سَيْفُهُ عَلَى فَخْذِهِ مِنْ هَوْلِ ٱللَّيْلِ.٨
9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
اَلْمَلِكُ سُلَيْمَانُ عَمِلَ لِنَفْسِهِ تَخْتًا مِنْ خَشَبِ لُبْنَانَ.٩
10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the middle thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
عَمِلَ أَعْمِدَتَهُ فِضَّةً، وَرَوَافِدَهُ ذَهَبًا، وَمَقْعَدَهُ أُرْجُوانًا، وَوَسَطَهُ مَرْصُوفًا مَحَبَّةً مِنْ بَنَاتِ أُورُشَلِيمَ.١٠
11 Go forth, O you daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
اُخْرُجْنَ يَا بَنَاتِ صِهْيَوْنَ، وَٱنْظُرْنَ ٱلْمَلِكَ سُلَيْمَانَ بِٱلتَّاجِ ٱلَّذِي تَوَّجَتْهُ بِهِ أُمُّهُ فِي يَوْمِ عُرْسِهِ، وَفِي يَوْمِ فَرَحِ قَلْبِهِ.١١

< Song of Solomon 3 >