Cantiques 4
1 Voici, tu es belle, mon amie; voici, tu es belle! Tes yeux sont des colombes derrière ton voile; tes cheveux sont comme un troupeau de chèvres sur les pentes de la montagne de Galaad.
My darling, you are beautiful, you are very beautiful! Underneath your veil, your eyes are [as gentle as] [MET] doves. Your [long black] hair [moves from side to side] like [SIM] a flock of [black] goats moving down the slopes of Gilead Mountain.
2 Tes dents sont comme un troupeau de [brebis] tondues, qui montent du lavoir, qui toutes ont des jumeaux, et pas une d’elles n’est stérile.
Your teeth are [very white] like [SIM] a flock of sheep [whose wool] has [just] been (shorn/cut off) and that have come up from being washed [in a stream]. You have all of your teeth; none of them is missing.
3 Tes lèvres sont comme un fil écarlate, et ta bouche est agréable; ta joue est comme un quartier de grenade derrière ton voile.
Your lips are like [SIM] a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Beneath your veil, your [round, rosy/red] cheeks are like [SIM] the halves of a pomegranate.
4 Ton cou est comme la tour de David, bâtie pour y suspendre des armures; mille boucliers y sont suspendus, tous les pavois des vaillants hommes.
Your [long] neck is [beautiful] like [SIM] the tower of [King] David that was built using layers/rows of stone. [The ornaments on your necklaces are like] 1,000 [HYP] shields that are hanging [on the walls of a tower]; each one belongs to a warrior.
5 Tes deux seins sont comme deux faons jumeaux d’une gazelle, qui paissent parmi les lis.
Your breasts are [as beautiful] [SIM] as two (fawns/young gazelles) that eat [grass] among lilies.
6 Jusqu’à ce que l’aube se lève, et que les ombres fuient, j’irai à la montagne de la myrrhe et à la colline de l’encens.
Until dawn [tomorrow morning] and the nighttime shadows/darkness disappear, I will [lie close to your breasts] that are [like] [MET] hills that are covered with incense [DOU].
7 Tu es toute belle, mon amie, et en toi il n’y a point de défaut.
My darling, you are completely beautiful; your body is perfectly [formed]!
8 [Viens] avec moi du Liban, [ma] fiancée, viens du Liban avec moi; regarde du sommet de l’Amana, du sommet du Senir et de l’Hermon, des tanières des lions, des montagnes des léopards.
My bride, [it is as though you are in] [MET] Lebanon [far away, where I cannot reach you]; come back to me. [It is as though you are inaccessible] [MET] on the top of Hermon Mountain or the nearby peaks. Come from where the lions have their dens and where the leopards live on the mountains.
9 Tu m’as ravi le cœur, ma sœur, [ma] fiancée; tu m’as ravi le cœur par l’un de tes yeux, par l’un des colliers de ton cou.
My bride [DOU], you who are dearer to me than my sister, you have captured my affection [IDM] by only once quickly looking at me, and by one [strand of] jewels in your necklace.
10 Que de charme ont tes amours, ma sœur, [ma] fiancée! Que tes amours sont meilleures que le vin, et l’odeur de tes parfums plus que tous les aromates!
My bride, your love for me is delightful! It more delightful than wine! And the fragrance of your perfume is more pleasing than any spice!
11 Tes lèvres, [ma] fiancée, distillent le miel; sous ta langue il y a du miel et du lait, et l’odeur de tes vêtements est comme l’odeur du Liban.
Being kissed by you is [as enjoyable as eating] [MTY] honey; your kisses are as sweet as milk [mixed with] honey. The aroma of your clothes is like [SIM] the aroma of [cedar trees in] Lebanon.
12 [Tu es] un jardin clos, ma sœur, [ma] fiancée, une source fermée, une fontaine scellée.
My bride, [you who are dearer to me than] [MET] my sister, you are [like] [MET] a garden that is locked [in order that other men cannot enter it]; [you are like] [MET] a spring or a fountain that is covered [in order that others may not drink from it].
13 Tes plants sont un paradis de grenadiers et de fruits exquis, de henné et de nard,
You are [like] [MET] an orchard of pomegranate trees full of delicious fruit, and plenty of [plants that produce] henna and nard [spices],
14 de nard et de safran, de roseau odorant et de cinnamome, avec tous les arbres à encens; de myrrhe et d’aloès, avec tous les principaux aromates;
and saffron and calamus and cinnamon and many other kinds of incense, and myrrh and aloes and many [other] fine spices.
15 une fontaine dans les jardins, un puits d’eaux vives, qui coulent du Liban!
[You are like] [MET] a fountain in a garden, [like] [MET] a spring of clear water that flows [down] from [the mountains of] Lebanon.
16 Réveille-toi, nord, et viens, midi; souffle dans mon jardin, pour que ses aromates s’exhalent! Que mon bien-aimé vienne dans son jardin, et qu’il mange ses fruits exquis.
[I want] the north wind and the south wind to come, and blow on my garden, [in order that] the fragrance [of the spices will] spread through the air. [Similarly], I want the one who loves me to come and enjoy [cuddling up to me] [like] [MET, EUP] someone comes into a garden and enjoys eating the fruit [that grows there].
