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 loves. I sought him, but I didn’t 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 get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t 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

The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

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 scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her 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

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires.

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 who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all 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! Sixty mighty men are around 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 has his sword on his thigh, because of fear 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 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

He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved 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 out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.