श्रेष्ठगीत 3
1 प्रेमिका आफैसित बोल्दैः रातमा मेरो ओछ्यानमा मेरो प्राणले प्रेम गरेको प्रेमीलाई मैले खोज्दै थिएँ । मैले उहाँको खोजी गरेँ, तर उहाँलाई भेट्टाउन सकिनँ ।
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he listened not to me.
2 मैले आफैलाई भनेँ, “म उठ्ने छु, र सहरबाट जाने छु, गल्ली र चोकहरूबाट जाने छु । मेरो प्राणले प्रेम गरेको प्रेमीलाई म खोज्ने छु ।” मैले उहाँको खोजी गरेँ, तर उहाँलाई भेट्टाउन सकिनँ ।
I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the marketplaces, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
3 पहरेदारहरू सहरमा घुम्दै गर्दा तिनीहरूले मलाई भेट्टाए । मैले तिनीहरूलाई सोधेँ, “मेरो प्राणले प्रेम गर्ने मेरा प्रेमीलाई के तपाईंहरूले देख्नुभएको छ?”
The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. [I said], Have you seen him whom my soul loves?
4 तिनीहरूबाट गएको केही समयपछि मात्रै मेरो प्राणले प्रेम गर्ने मेरा प्रेमीलाई मैले भेट्टाएँ । मैले उहाँलाई समातेँ, र मेरी आमाको घरमा, मलाई जन्म दिनुहुनेको कोठाभित्र नल्याएसम्म मैले उहाँलाई जान दिइनँ । प्रेमिका अन्य स्त्रीहरूसित बोल्दैः
[It was] as a little [while] after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
5 हे यरूशलेमका छोरीहरू हो, मैदानका मुडुली मृग र हरिणहरूको नाउँमा म तिमीहरूसित वाचा बाँध्छु, कि आफूले नचाहेसम्म प्रेमलाई नबिउँझाओ वा नजगाओ । प्रेमिका आफैसित बोल्दैः
I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that you rouse not nor awake [my] love, until he please.
6 व्यापारीहरूद्वारा बेचिएका सबै मसलाबाट बनिएको मूर्र र धूपले सुगन्धित भएर धूवाँको मुस्लोझैँ उजाड-स्थानबाट माथि आउँदै गरेको के हो?
Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?
7 हेर, यो त सोलोमनको पलङ्ग पो रहेछ । इस्राएलका साठी जना योद्धाले यसको वरिपरि सुरक्षा दिँदै छन् ।
Behold Solomon's bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.
8 तिनीहरू सबै तरवार चलाउन सिपालु छन्, र युद्धमा अनुभवी छन् । रातको त्रासको विरुद्धमा लड्न हरेकले तरवार भिरेको छ ।
They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every man [has] his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night.
9 राजा सोलोमनले आफ्नै निम्ति लेबनानको काठबाट पालकी बनाउनुभयो ।
King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.
10 यसका डन्डाहरू चाँदीका थिए । यसको पछाडिको भाग सुनबाट बनेको थियो, र आसनचाहिँ बैजनी वस्त्रले ढाकिएको थियो । यसको भित्री भागचाहिँ यरूशलेमका छोरीहरूको प्रेमले सजिएको थियो । प्रेमिका यरूशलेमका स्त्रीहरूसित बोल्दैः
He made the pillars of it silver, the bottom of it gold, the covering of it scarlet, in the midst of it a pavement of love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 हे सियोनका छोरीहरू हो, बाहिर गएर राजा सोलोमनलाई एकटक लगाएर हेर, जसले मुकुट लगाउनुभएको छ, जुन उहाँकी आमाले विवाहको दिनमा, उहाँको हृदय आनन्दले भरिएको दिनमा उहाँलाई पहिराइदिएकी थिइन् ।
Go forth, you daughters of Sion, and behold king Solomon, with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him, in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
