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

[[M.]] Upon my bed, in the night, I sought him whom my soul loveth; I sought him, but 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 arise now [[said I]], and go about the city; In the streets and the broad ways will I seek him whom my soul loveth; I sought him, but 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 who go about the city found me; “Have you seen [[said I]] 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

I had but just passed them, When I found him whom my soul loveth; I held him, and would not let him go, Till I had brought him into my mother's house, Into the apartment of her that bore 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

[[Lov.]] I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem! By the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till she 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 from the wilderness, Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all the 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, the carriage of Solomon! Threescore valiant men are around it, Of the valiant 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 wear swords, Being skilled in war. Every one hath his sword girt upon his thigh, On account of danger 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 for himself a carriage 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

The pillars thereof he made of silver, The railing of gold, The seat of purple, Its interior curiously wrought by a lovely one of 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 behold King Solomon In the crown with which his mother crowned him, In the day of his espousals, In the day of the gladness of his heart.