雅歌 3

1 夜われ床にありて我心の愛する者をたづねしが尋ねたれども得ず

On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.

2 我おもへらく今おきて邑をまはりありき わが心の愛する者を街衢あるひは大路にてたづねんと 乃ちこれを尋ねたれども得ざりき

I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.

3 邑をまはりありく夜巡者らわれに遇ければ 汝らわが心の愛する者を見しやと問ひ

I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”

4 これに別れて過ゆき間もなくわが心の愛する者の遇たれば 之をひきとめて放さず 遂にわが母の家にともなひゆき 我を產し者の室にいりぬ

I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.

5 ヱルサレムの女子等よ 我なんぢらに獐と野の鹿とをさし誓ひて請ふ 愛のおのづから起る時まで殊更に喚起し且つ醒すなかれ

O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

6 この沒藥乳香など商人のもろもろの薫物をもて身をかをらせ 煙の柱のごとくして荒野より來る者は誰ぞや

Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?

7 視よ こはソロモンの乗輿にして 勇士六十人その周圍にあり イスラエルの勇士なり

Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.

8 みな刀劍を執り 戰鬪を善す 各人腰に刀劍を帶て夜の警誡に備ふ

All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of the night.

9 ソロモン王レバノンの木をもて己のために輿をつくれり

King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon.

10 その柱は白銀 その欄杆は黄金 その座は紫色にて作り その内部にはイスラエルの女子等が愛をもて繍たる物を張つく

He has made its posts of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple fabric. Its interior is inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.

11 シオンの女子等よ 出きたりてソロモン王を見よ かれは婚姻の日 心の喜べる日にその母の己にかうぶらしし冠冕を戴けり

Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother bestowed on the day of his wedding— the day of his heart’s rejoicing.