< Song of Solomon 8 >
1 Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! [when] I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, and none would despise me.
萬望你的兄弟,吮過我母親的乳房,好叫我 外邊遇見你時,能親吻你,而不致受人輕視。
2 I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
我要引領你走進我母親的家,進入懷我者的內室;給你喝調香的美酒,石榴的甘釀
3 His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
他的左手在我頭下,他的右手緊抱著我。◆新郎:
4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awaken love, until it please.
耶路撒冷女郎! 我懇求妳們,不要驚醒,也不要喚我的愛,讓她自便吧![第六幕:愛情的圓滿]◆耶京女郎:
5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened thee: there thy mother was in travail with thee, there was she in travail that brought thee forth.
從曠野裏上來,那依偎著自己的愛人的,是誰﹖◆新郎:在蘋果樹下我喚醒了妳,在那裏妳的母親懷孕了妳,在那裏生養妳的,為妳受了產痛。◆新娘:
6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD. (Sheol )
請將我有如印璽,放在你的心上,有如印璽,放在你肩上,因為愛情猛如死亡,妒愛頑如陰府:它的火焰,是上主的火焰。◆新郎: (Sheol )
7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would utterly be contemned.
洪流不能熄滅愛情,江河不能將它沖去,如有人獻出全副家產想購買愛情,必受人輕視。◆新娘兄弟:
8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
我的妹妹尚小,還沒有乳房;到了她議婚之日,為我們的妹妹,我們將作什麼﹖
9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a turret of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
她若是牆,我們就在上面建造銀堵,她若是門,我們就用香柏木閂來關鎖。◆新娘:
10 I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers [thereof]: then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.
我是一道牆,我的乳房如同塔。我在他眼裏,實如獲得和平的女郎。◆新娘兄弟:
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver.
撒羅滿在巴耳哈孟有個葡萄園,他將這葡萄園委托給看守的人;每人為園中的果子,應交一千兩銀子。◆新郎:
12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
那屬我的葡萄園,就在我面前;撒羅滿! 一千兩銀子歸你,二百兩歸看守果子的人。◆新郎:
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken for thy voice: cause me to hear it.
妳這住在果園中的女郎,願妳使我聽到妳的聲音! 同伴們都在等候細聽。◆新娘:
14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
我的愛人! 願你仿效郁香山上的羚羊或幼鹿,趕快跑來!