श्रेष्ठगीत 5
1 प्रेमी प्रेमिकासित बोल्दैः हे मेरी बहिनी, मेरी दुलही, म मेरो बगैँचामा आएको छु । आफ्नो सुगन्धित मसालासँगै मैले मेरो मूर्र जम्मा गरेको छु । मैले आफ्नो महसँगै महको चाका खाएको छु । मैले आफ्नो दूधसँगै मेरो दाखमद्य पिएको छु । मित्रहरू प्रेमी र प्रेमिकासित बोल्दैः हे मित्रहरू हो, खाओ । पिओ र प्रेमले मात । प्रेमिका आफैसित बोल्दैः
I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] bride; I have plucked my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my sugar-cane with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, ye companions; drink, yea, drink abundantly, ye friends.—
2 म सुतेँ, तर मेरो हृदय जागै थियो । मेरा प्रेमीले ढकढक्याइरहेको आवाज आउँदै छ, “हे मेरी बहिनी, मेरी प्रिय, मेरी शुद्ध ढुकुर्नी, ढोका खोल, किनकि मेरो शिर शीतले र मेरो कपाल रातको चिसोले भिजेको छ ।”
I slept, but my heart was awake: [there was] the voice of my beloved that knocked, “Open for me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my guiltless one; for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.”
3 “मैले मेरो लुगा फुकालेको छु । के मैले यसलाई फेरि लगाउने? मैले मेरो खुट्टा धोएको छु । के मैले यसलाई फेरि फोहोर बनाउने?”
I have put off my coat: how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet: how shall I defile them?
4 मेरा प्रेमीले छेस्किनी खोल्न हात हाल्नुभयो, र मेरो हृदय उहाँको लागि उत्तेजित भयो ।
My friend stretched forth his hand through the opening, and my inmost parts were moved for him.
5 मेरा प्रेमीको लागि ढोका खोल्न म उठेँ । मेरा हातहरूबाट मूर्र चुहुँदै थियो, र मेरा औँलाहरूबाट ढोकाको ताल्चामा गिलो मूर्र चुहुँदै थियो ।
I rose up myself to open for my friend; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with fluid myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
6 मैले मेरा प्रेमीको लागि ढोका खोलेँ, तर मेरा प्रेमी फर्केर गइसक्नुभएको रहेछ । उहाँ बोल्नुहुँदा मेरो हृदय शोकित भयो । मैले उहाँको खोजी गरेँ, तर मैले उहाँलाई भेट्टाइनँ । मैले उहाँलाई डाकेँ, तर उहाँले मलाई जवाफ दिनुभएन ।
I indeed opened for my beloved; but my beloved had vanished, and was gone: my soul had failed me while he was speaking; I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he answered me not.
7 पहरेदारहरू सहरमा घुम्दा तिनीहरूले मलाई भेट्टाए । तिनीहरूले मलाई प्रहार गरी चोटै-चोट पारे । पर्खालमाथि भएका पहरेदारहरूले मेरो खास्टो पनि खोसेर लगे । प्रेमिका सहरका स्त्रीहरूसित बोल्दैः
Then found me the watchmen that walked about the city; they smote me, they wounded me: they took away my vail from me, they that watched the walls.
8 हे यरूशलेमका छोरीहरू हो, म तिमीहरूसित वाचा बाँध्छु, कि तिमीहरूले मेरा प्रेमीलाई भेट्टायौ भने तिमीहरूले उहाँलाई के भन्ने छौ? म प्रेमले बिरामी परेकी छु भनी बताइदिनू । सहरका स्त्रीहरू प्रेमिकासित बोल्दैः
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, what will ye tell him? that I am sick of love.—
9 हे स्त्रीहरूमध्ये असाध्यै सुन्दरी, अर्को प्रिय पुरुषभन्दा तपाईंका प्रेमी कसरी उत्तम छन्? अर्को प्रिय पुरुषभन्दा तपाईंको प्रेमी किन उत्तम छन्, ताकि तिमी हामीलाई यस्तो शपथ खान लगाउँछ्यौ? प्रेमिका सहरका स्त्रीहरूसित बोल्दैः
What is thy friend more than another's friend, O thou fairest of women? what is thy friend more than another's friend, that thus thou adjurest us?—
10 मेरा प्रेमी उज्ज्वल र स्वस्थ, दस हजारका बिचमा श्रेष्ठ हुनुहुन्छ ।
My friend is white and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.
11 उहाँको शिर निखुर सुनको छ । उहाँको कपाल घुम्रिएको र कागजस्तै कालो छ ।
His head is bright as the finest gold, his locks are like waving foliage, and black as a raven.
12 उहाँका आँखा पानीको खोलाको छेउमा बस्ने ढुकुरहरूजस्ता छन्, दूधले नुहाएको, गर्गहना जडिएका जस्ता छन् ।
His eyes are like [those of] doves by streamlets of waters, bathed in milk, well fitted in their setting.
13 उहाँका गालाहरू सुगन्धित मसालाहरूको ड्याङजस्ता छन्, जसले बास्ना फिँजाउँछन् ।
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as turrets of sweet perfumes: his lips, like lilies, dropping with fluid myrrh.
14 उहाँका ओठ मूर्रको रस चुहाउने लिली फुलहरूजस्ता छन् ।
His hands are like wheels of gold beset with the chrysolite: his body, an image made of ivory overlaid with sapphires.
15 उहाँका पाखुरा गर्गहना जडिएका गोलो सुनजस्ता छन् । उहाँको पेट नीरले ढाकिएको हस्ती-हाडजस्तो छ ।
His legs are like pillars of marble, resting upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent like the cedars.
16 उहाँका गोडाहरू निखुर सुनका अड्याइएका सिङ्गमरमरका खम्बाहरूजस्ता छन् । उहाँको आकार लेबनानजस्तै, उत्तम देवदारुजस्तै छ । उहाँको मुख ज्यादै मिठो छ । उहाँ पूर्ण रूपमा मायालु हुनुहुन्छ । हे यरूशलेमका छोरीहरू हो, उहाँ नै मेरा प्रेमी हुनुहुन्छ, र मेरा मित्र हुनुहुन्छ ।
His palate is full of sweets, and every thing in him is agreeable. This is my friend, and this is my beloved, O daughters of Jerusalem.—
