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

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth; I sought him, but I found him not.

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 rise now, and go about the city, in the streets and in the broad ways, I will seek him whom my soul loveth.' I sought him, but I found him not.

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

The watchmen that go about the city found me: 'Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?'

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

Scarce had I passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that 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

'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.'

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 that cometh up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders 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 the litter of Solomon; threescore mighty men are about it, of the mighty 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

They all handle the sword, and are expert in war; every man hath his sword upon his thigh, because of dread in 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 made himself a palanquin of the wood 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 made the pillars thereof of silver, the top thereof of gold, the seat of it of purple, the inside thereof being inlaid with love, from 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

Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and gaze upon king Solomon, even upon the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.