Wimbo wa Sulemani 8
1 Laiti ungelikuwa kwangu kama ndugu wa kiume, ambaye aliyanyonya matiti ya mama yangu! Kisha, kama ningekukuta huko nje, ningelikubusu, wala hakuna mtu yeyote angelinidharau.
Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me?
2 Ningelikuongoza na kukuleta katika nyumba ya mama yangu, yeye ambaye amenifundisha. Ningelikupa divai iliyokolezwa unywe, asali ya maua ya mikomamanga yangu.
I will take hold of thee, and bring thee Into my mother’s house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates.
3 Mkono wake wa kushoto uko chini ya kichwa changu, na mkono wake wa kuume unanikumbatia.
His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
4 Binti za Yerusalemu, ninawaagiza: msichochee wala kuamsha mapenzi hata yatakapotaka yenyewe.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.
5 Ni nani huyu anayekuja kutoka nyikani akimwegemea mpenzi wake? Mpendwa Nilikuamsha chini ya mtofaa, huko mama yako alipotunga mimba yako, huko yeye alipata utungu akakuzaa.
Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee.
6 Nitie kama muhuri moyoni mwako, kama muhuri kwenye mkono wako; kwa maana upendo una nguvu kama mauti, wivu wake ni mkatili kama kuzimu. Unachoma kama mwali wa moto, kama mwali mkubwa wa moto wa Bwana hasa. (Sheol h7585)
Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames. (Sheol h7585)
7 Maji mengi hayawezi kuuzimisha upendo, mito haiwezi kuugharikisha. Kama mtu angelitoa mali yote ya nyumbani mwake kwa ajili ya upendo, angelidharauliwa kabisa.
Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.
8 Tunaye dada mdogo, matiti yake hayajakua bado. Tutafanya nini kwa ajili ya dada yetu wakati atakapokuja kuposwa?
Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to?
9 Kama yeye ni ukuta, tutajenga minara ya fedha juu yake. Na kama yeye ni mlango, tutamzungushia mbao za mierezi.
If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards or cedar.
10 Mimi ni ukuta, nayo matiti yangu ni kama minara. Ndivyo ambavyo nimekuwa machoni pake kama yule anayeleta utoshelevu.
I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.
11 Solomoni alikuwa na shamba la mizabibu huko Baal-Hamoni; alikodisha shamba lake la mizabibu kwa wapangaji. Kila mmoja angeleta kwa ajili ya matunda yake shekeli 1,000 za fedha.
The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.
12 Lakini shamba langu la mizabibu ambalo ni langu mwenyewe ni langu kutoa; hizo shekeli 1,000 ni kwa ajili yako, ee Solomoni, na shekeli mia mbili ni kwa ajili ya wale wanaotunza matunda yake.
My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof.
13 Wewe ukaaye bustanini pamoja na marafiki mliohudhuria, hebu nisikie sauti yako!
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me hear thy voice.
14 Njoo, mpenzi wangu, uwe kama swala au kama ayala kijana juu ya milima iliyojaa vikolezo.
Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.
