Tonon-kiran'i Solomona 1
1 Ny tonon-kira tsara indrindra, izay nataon’ i Solomona.
The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
2 Enga anie ka hanoroka ahy amin’ ny fanorohan’ ny vavany izy! Fa tsara noho ny divay ny fitiavanao.
Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.
3 Mani-pofona ny menakao tsara, menaka manitra voaidina ny anaranao, koa izany no itiavan’ ny zatovovavy anao.
Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
4 Taomy aho, dia hihazakazaka hanaraka anao izahay; Nentin’ ny mpanjaka ho ao an-efi-tranony aho. Hifaly sy hiravoravo aminao izahay; Hankalazainay mihoatra noho ny divay ny fitiavanao; Fitiavana marina no itiavany anao.
Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
5 Mivalomainty aho, nefa tsara tarehy, ry zanakavavin’ i Jerosalema, toy ny lain’ i Kedara, toy ny ambain-dain’ i Solomona.
I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
6 Aza mibanjina ahy, fa mivalomainty aho, satria efa azon’ ny hainandro; Tezitra tamiko ny zanak’ ineny; Notendreny ho mpiandry ny tanim-boalobony aho; Nefa ny tanim-boaloboko kosa, dia ny an’ ny tenako, tsy mba nandrasako.
Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.
7 Lazao amiko, ry ilay tian’ ny fanahiko, izay iandrasanao ny ondrinao, sy izay ampandrianao azy raha antoandro; Fa nahoana no ho tahaka izay mivezivezy foana aho Eny amin’ ny andian’ ny namanao?
Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?
8 Raha tsy fantatrao, ry tsara tarehy indrindra amin’ ny vehivavy, dia mandehana hanaraka ny andian’ ny ondry aman’ osy, ary andraso eny amin’ ny lain’ ny mpiandry ondry ny zanak’ osinao.
If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.
9 Ry tompokovavy havako, ianao dia ampitahaiko amin’ ny soavalivaviko mitarika ny kalesin’ i Farao.
I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.
10 Mahatsara ny tarehinao ireo voahangy voatohy; Manendrika ny vozonao ireo rado.
Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.
11 Nefa rojo volamena misy voavola mibontsimbontsina kosa no hataonay ho anao.
We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.
12 Raha mipetraka amin’ ny latabany ny mpanjaka, dia mamerovero tsara ny nardako.
While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.
13 Ny malalako dia miora am-pehezana madinika mandry eo an-tratrako.
As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.
14 Ny malalako dia tahaka ny vonin’ ny kofera amiko, any an-tanimbolin’ i En-jedy.
My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.
15 Indro, tsara tarehy ianao, ry tompokovavy havako; Indro, tsara tarehy ianao; Voromailala ny masonao.
See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.
16 Indro, tsara tarehy ianao, ry malalako, eny, mahafinaritra; Maitso ny fandriantsika.
See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.
17 Sedera ny sakamandimbin’ ny tranontsika, ary kypreso ny peta-drindrintsika.
Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.
