Cantiques 7
1 Fille de prince, que tes pieds sont beaux dans ta chaussure! Le contour de tes hanches est comme un collier travaillé 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 sein est une coupe arrondie, pleine d'un vin aromatisé; ton ventre est un tas de blé entouré de lis.
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 gazelle.
Your breasts are as [as beautiful] as [SIM] two (fawns/young gazelles).
4 Ton cou est comme une tour d'ivoire, tes yeux sont les viviers en Hesbon, près de la porte de Bath-Rabbim; 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 élevée comme le Carmel, et les cheveux de ta tête sont comme de l'écarlate. Un roi serait enchaîné par tes boucles.
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, mon amour et mes délices!
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 de raisins.
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 je saisirai ses branches; que les mamelles soient pour moi comme des grappes de vigne, et le parfum de ton souffle 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 de ceux qui dorment.
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 tend 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 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; c'est là que 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 exhalent leur odeur, et à nos portes il y a de toutes sortes de fruits exquis, des fruits nouveaux et des anciens, que je t'ai gardés, 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.
