Cantiques 7
1 Fille de Prince, combien sont belles tes démarches, avec [ta] chaussure! Le tour de tes hanches est comme des colliers travaillés de la main d'un excellent ouvrier.
You who are the daughter of a prince/king, you have lovely feet in your sandals. Your curved hips/thighs are like [SIM] jewels that have been made by a (skilled craftsman/man who shapes jewels very well).
2 Ton nombril est [comme] une tasse ronde, toute comble de breuvage, ton ventre est [comme] un tas de blé entouré de muguet.
Your navel is [like] [MET] a round bowl that is always full of wine mixed [with spices]. Your waist is [like] [SIM] a mound/bundle of wheat with lilies [growing] around it.
3 Tes deux mamelles sont comme deux faons jumeaux d'une chevrette.
Your breasts are as [as beautiful] as [SIM] two (fawns/young gazelles).
4 Ton cou est comme une tour d'ivoire; tes yeux sont [comme] les viviers qui sont en Hesbon, près de la porte de Bathrabbim; ton visage est comme la tour du Liban qui regarde vers Damas.
Your neck is like [SIM] a tower [made of] ivory. Your eyes [sparkle/shine like] [MET] the pools in Heshbon [city], near the Bath-Rabbim gate. Your nose is [is as lovely] as [SIM] the tower of Lebanon which faces toward Damascus.
5 Ta tête est sur toi comme du cramoisi, et les cheveux fins de ta tête sont comme de l'écarlate; Le Roi est attaché aux galeries [pour te contempler].
Your head is [majestic] like [SIM] Carmel Mountain. Your long hair is shiny [SIM] and black; [it is as though] I, your king, am captured by your tresses.
6 Que tu es belle, et que tu es agréable, amour délicieuse!
You whom I love, who have many charming features that attract me, are very beautiful and pleasant/pleasing.
7 Ta taille est semblable à un palmier, et tes mamelles à des grappes.
You are stately like [SIM] a palm tree, and your breasts are like [SIM] clusters/bunches of dates/fruit.
8 J'ai dit: Je monterai sur le palmier, et j'empoignerai ses branches? et tes mamelles me seront maintenant comme des grappes de vigne; et l'odeur de ton visage, comme l'odeur des pommes;
I said [to myself], “I will climb that palm tree and take hold of those clusters of dates.” To me, your breasts are like clusters of grapes [that I can feel] and your breath is like the sweet fragrance of apples
9 Et ton palais comme le bon vin qui coule en faveur de mon bien-aimé, et qui fait parler les lèvres des dormants.
and your kisses are like very good wine. My kisses [MTY] go to the one who loves me and flow [like wine] over his lips and his teeth.
10 Je suis à mon bien-aimé, et son désir est vers moi.
I belong to the man who loves me, and he desires me.
11 Viens, mon bien-aimé, sortons aux champs, passons la nuit aux villages.
You who love me, let’s go to the countryside, and sleep among the henna bushes (OR, in one of the villages).
12 Levons-nous dès le matin pour aller aux vignes, et voyons si la vigne est avancée, et si la grappe est formée, et si les grenadiers sont fleuris; là je te donnerai mes amours.
And let’s go early to the vineyards to see if the grapevines have budded and if there are blossoms on them that have opened, and to see if the pomegranate [trees] are blooming, and there I will make love to you.
13 Les mandragores jettent leur odeur, et à nos portes il y a de toutes sortes de fruits exquis, des fruits nouveaux, et des fruits gardés, que je t'ai conservés, ô mon bien-aimé.
The mandrakes/love-apples are producing a fragrant odor, and we are surrounded by delightful [pleasures] [MET, EUP], new ones and old ones, pleasures that I have been saving to give to you, who love me.
