雅歌 5
1 わが妹わがはなよめよ 我はわが園にいり わが沒藥と薫物とを採り わが蜜房と蜜とを食ひ わが酒とわが乳とを飮り わが伴侶等よ 請ふ食へ わが愛する人々よ 請ふ飮あけよ
I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.
2 われは睡りたれどもわが心は醒ゐたり 時にわが愛する者の聲あり 即はち門をたたきていふ わが妹わが佳耦 わが鴿 わが完きものよ われのために開け わが首には露滿ち わが髪の毛には夜の點滴みてりと
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
3 われすでにわが衣服を脱げり いかでまた着るべき 已にわが足を洗へり いかでまた汚すべき
I have taken off my robe— must I put it back on? I have washed my feet— must I soil them again?
4 わが愛する者戸の穴より手をさしいれしかば わが心かれのためにうごきたり
My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
5 やがて起いでてわが愛する者の爲に開かんとせしとき 沒藥わが手より沒藥の汁わが指よりながれて關木の把柄のうへにしたたれり
I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
6 我わが愛する者の爲に開きしに わが愛する者は已に退き去りぬ さきにその物いひし時はわが心さわぎたり 我かれをたづねたれども遇ず 呼たれども答應なかりき
I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
7 邑をまはりありく夜巡者等われを見てうちて傷つけ 石垣をまもる者らはわが上衣をはぎとれり
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.
8 エルサレムの女子等よ 我なんぢらにかたく請ふ もしわが愛する者にあはば汝ら何とこれにつぐべきや 我愛によりて疾わづらふと告げよ
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
9 なんぢの愛する者は別の人の愛する者に何の勝れるところありや 婦女の中のいと美はしき者よ なんぢが愛する者は別の人の愛する者に何の勝れるところありて斯われらに固く請ふや
How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?
10 わが愛する者は白くかつ紅にして萬人の上に越ゆ その頭は純金のごとく その髪はふさやかにして黒きこと烏のごとし
My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
12 その目は谷川の水のほとりにをる鴿のごとく 乳にて洗はれて美はしく嵌れり
His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
13 その頬は馨しき花の床のごとく 香草の壇のごとし その唇は百合花のごとくにして沒藥の汁をしたたらす
His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
14 その手はきばみたる碧玉を嵌し黄金の釧のごとく 其躰は青玉をもておほひたる象牙の彫刻物のごとし
His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
15 その脛は蝋石の柱を黄金の臺にてたてたるがごとく その相貌はレバノンのごとく その優れたるさまは香柏のごとし
His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
16 その口ははなはだ甘く誠に彼には一つだにうつくしからぬ所なし エルサレムの女子等よ これぞわが愛する者 これぞわが伴侶なる
His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
