雅歌 6
1 婦女のいと美はしきものよ 汝の愛する者は何處へゆきしや なんぢの愛する者はいづこへおもむきしや われら汝とともにたづねん
Where has your beloved gone, most beautiful among women? In what direction has your beloved gone, so that we may seek him with you?
2 わが愛するものは己の園にくだり 香しき花の床にゆき 園の中にて群を牧ひ また百合花を採る
My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze in the garden and to gather lilies.
3 我はわが愛する者につき わが愛する者はわれにつく 彼は百合花の中にてその群を牧ふ
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies with pleasure.
4 わが佳耦よ なんぢは美はしきことテルザのごとく 華やかなることヱルサレムのごとく 畏るべきこと旗をあげたる軍旅のごとし
You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my love, as lovely as Jerusalem, as awe-inspiring as an army with its banners.
5 なんぢの目は我をおそれしむ 請ふ我よりはなれしめよ なんぢの髮はギレアデ山の腰に臥たる山羊の群に似たり
Turn your eyes away from me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats going down from the slopes of Gilead.
6 なんぢの齒は毛を剪たる牝羊の浴塲より出たるがごとし おのおの雙子をうみてひとつも子なきものはなし
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes coming up from the washing place. Each one has a twin, and none among them is bereaved.
7 なんぢの頬は面帕の後にありて石榴の半片に似たり
Your cheeks are like pomegranate halves behind your veil.
8 后六十人 妃嬪八十人 數しられぬ處女あり
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and young women without number.
9 わが鴿わが完き者はただ一人のみ 彼はその母の獨子にして產たる者の喜ぶところの者なり 女子等は彼を見て幸福なる者ととなへ 后等妃嬪等は彼を見て讃む
My dove, my undefiled, is the only one; she is the only daughter of her mother; she is the favorite one of the woman who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines saw her also, and they praised her:
10 この晨光のごとくに見えわたり 月のごとくに美はしく 日のごとくに輝やき 畏るべきこと旗をあげたる軍旅のごとき者は誰ぞや
“Who is this who appears like the dawn, as beautiful as the moon, as bright as the sun, as awe-inspiring as an army with its banners?”
11 われ胡桃の園にくだりゆき 谷の靑き草木を見 葡萄や芽しし石榴の花や咲しと見回しをりしに
I went down into the grove of nut trees to see the young growth in the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, and whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
12 意はず知ず我が心われをしてわが貴とき民の車の中間にあらしむ
I was so happy that I felt I was riding in the chariot of a prince.
13 歸れ歸れシユラミの婦よ 歸れ歸れ われら汝を觀んことをねがふ なんぢら何とてマハナイムの跳舞を觀るごとくにシユラミの婦を觀んとねがふや
Turn back, turn back, you perfect woman; turn back, turn back so that we may gaze on you. The woman speaking to the friends Why do you gaze on the perfect woman, as if on the dance between two armies?
