Song of Solomon 8
1 I wish that you were my brother who (nursed at/drank milk from) my mother’s breasts [when you were a baby], [because, if you were my brother], if I saw you when you were outside [the house], I could kiss you, and no one would say that my doing that was wrong.
Oh! que tu aies été pour moi comme un frère qui ait sucé les mamelles de ma mère! Si je te trouvais dehors, je t’embrasserais, sans qu’on m’en méprise.
2 [No one would object if] I led you to my mother’s house, to where my mother, who taught me [many things], lives. I would like to take you to my mother’s house because I would [like to make love to you] [EUP], [and that would be as delightful as] [MET] juice [squeezed] from pomegranates.
Je t’amènerais, je t’introduirais dans la maison de ma mère: tu m’instruirais; je te ferais boire du vin aromatisé, du jus de mes grenades.
3 You would put your left arm under my head and with your right arm hold me close.
Sa main gauche serait sous ma tête, et sa droite m’embrasserait!
4 [I would say to] you women of Jerusalem, “Solemnly promise me that you will not disturb us while we are making love until we are ready to quit.”
Je vous adjure, filles de Jérusalem, pourquoi éveilleriez-vous, et pourquoi réveilleriez-vous [mon] amour, avant qu’elle le veuille!
5 Who is that [woman] who is coming up from the desert, (leaning on/clinging close to) the man who loves her? I woke you up [when you were] under the apple tree at the place where your mother conceived you, which is the same place where she gave birth to you.
Qui est celle-ci qui monte du désert, s’appuyant sur son bien-aimé? – Je t’ai réveillée sous le pommier: là ta mère t’a enfantée dans les douleurs, là celle qui t’a enfantée a été en travail.
6 Keep me [close to you], like [SIM] a seal on your heart, [or] like [SIM] a bracelet on your arm. Our love [for each other] is as powerful as death, it is as enduring as the grave. [It is as though] our love [for each other] bursts into flames and burns like a hot fire. (Sheol h7585)
Mets-moi comme un cachet sur ton cœur, comme un cachet sur ton bras; car l’amour est fort comme la mort, la jalousie, cruelle comme le shéol; ses ardeurs sont des ardeurs de feu, une flamme de Jah. (Sheol h7585)
7 Nothing can extinguish our love [for each other], not [even] a flood. If a man tried to cause a woman to love him by saying he would give her everything that is in his house, she would refuse.
Beaucoup d’eaux ne peuvent éteindre l’amour, et des fleuves ne le submergent pas; si un homme donnait tous les biens de sa maison pour l’amour, on l’aurait en un profond mépris.
8 We have a younger sister, and her breasts are still small. So this is [RHQ] what we should do for her on the day that we promise [some young man] that he can marry her:
Nous avons une petite sœur, et elle n’a pas encore de seins. Que ferons-nous pour notre sœur, au jour où l’on parlera d’elle?
9 If [her chest is flat like] [MET] a wall, we will [decorate it by] putting silver [jewels that are like] [MET] towers on it. Or, if she is [flat like] [MET] a door, we will decorate her with bits/pieces of cedar wood.
– Si elle est une muraille, nous bâtirons sur elle une demeure d’argent; et si elle est une porte, nous la fermerons avec une planche de cèdre.
10 My [chest was previously flat like] [MET] a wall, [but now] my breasts are [big] like [SIM] towers. So the one who loves me is delighted with me.
Je suis une muraille, et mes seins sont des tours; je fus alors à ses yeux comme celle qui a trouvé la paix.
11 [King] Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-Hamon, and he rented it to people for them to take care of it. He required each one to pay him 1,000 pieces of silver [each year] for the grapes [that they harvested].
– Salomon avait une vigne à Baal-Hamon: il remit la vigne à des gardiens; chacun devait apporter pour son fruit 1 000 [pièces] d’argent.
12 [But my body is like] [MET] my own vineyard, and Solomon, I am giving it to you. [You do not need to pay me] 1,000 pieces of silver [to enjoy my body], but I will give 200 pieces of silver to those who take care of me [MET].
Ma vigne, qui est à moi, est devant moi. À toi, Salomon, les 1 000 [pièces]; et 200 pour ceux qui en gardent le fruit.
13 You are staying in the gardens and my friends are listening to your voice; [so] allow me to hear it, [too.]
Habitante des jardins, les compagnons sont attentifs à ta voix! Fais que je l’entende!
14 You who love me, come [to me] quickly; [run to me] [MET, EUP] as fast as [SIM] a gazelle or young deer runs across [MET] hills of spices.
Fuis, mon bien-aimé, et sois semblable à une gazelle ou au faon des biches, sur les montagnes des aromates.
