男子:

我的愛人啊,你真是美極了!
面紗掩映著那溫柔如鴿的雙眸,
你的秀髮就好像躍下基列山岡的山羊群。
你的牙齒如同新剪了毛的母羊,
剛從水裡洗淨上來,成雙成對,
一顆也沒有脫落。
你的唇好像朱紅絲帶,
你的口嬌美,
你面紗下的雙頰如兩瓣石榴。
你的頸項秀麗,宛若裝飾著上千英雄盾牌的大衛樓塔。
你的胸脯好比一對在百合花間吃草的孿生小鹿。
我要登上沒藥山和乳香岡,
直到晚風吹起、日影消逝。
我的愛人啊,
你美麗動人,毫無瑕疵。
我的新娘啊,
跟我一起離開黎巴嫩,
離開黎巴嫩吧!
離開那獅豹出沒的亞瑪拿山頂、示尼珥山和黑門高峰吧!
我的妹妹,我的新娘啊,
你奪去了我的心。
你的秋波一轉,
你項鏈上的明珠一閃,
都令我傾倒。
10 我的妹妹,我的新娘啊,
你的愛比美酒更香甜。
你身上洋溢的芬芳遠勝過一切香料。
11 我的新娘,你的嘴唇甘甜如蜜,
你的舌頭底下藏著奶與蜜。
你的衣服散發的幽香,
就像黎巴嫩山芬芳怡人的氣息。
12 我的妹妹,我的新娘,
你是緊鎖的園子,
封閉的井,隱藏的泉源。
13 你好像一個美麗的果園,
結滿了石榴和各種上好的果子,
也有鳳仙花、哪噠樹、
14 哪噠和番紅花、菖蒲和肉桂、
沒藥和沉香,
以及一切上好的香料。
15 你是園中的甘泉,是活水的井,
是從黎巴嫩流下來的溪水。

女子:

16 北風啊,興起吧!
南風啊,吹來吧!
吹向我的園子,
使它的清香四溢。
願我的良人走進自己的園中,
享受其中的珍果。

The Bridegroom Praises the Bride

The Beloved

Behold, (A)you are fair, my love!
Behold, you are fair!
You have dove’s eyes behind your veil.
Your hair is like a (B)flock of goats,
Going down from Mount Gilead.
(C)Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep
Which have come up from the washing,
Every one of which bears twins,
And none is [a]barren among them.
Your lips are like a strand of scarlet,
And your mouth is lovely.
(D)Your temples behind your veil
Are like a piece of pomegranate.
(E)Your neck is like the tower of David,
Built (F)for an armory,
On which hang a thousand [b]bucklers,
All shields of mighty men.
(G)Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle,
Which feed among the lilies.

(H)Until the day breaks
And the shadows flee away,
I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh
And to the hill of frankincense.

(I)You are all fair, my love,
And there is no spot in you.
Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse,
With me from Lebanon.
Look from the top of Amana,
From the top of Senir (J)and Hermon,
From the lions’ dens,
From the mountains of the leopards.

You have ravished my heart,
My sister, my spouse;
You have ravished my heart
With one look of your eyes,
With one link of your necklace.
10 How fair is your love,
My sister, my spouse!
(K)How much better than wine is your love,
And the [c]scent of your perfumes
Than all spices!
11 Your lips, O my spouse,
Drip as the honeycomb;
(L)Honey and milk are under your tongue;
And the fragrance of your garments
Is (M)like the fragrance of Lebanon.

12 A garden [d]enclosed
Is my sister, my spouse,
A spring shut up,
A fountain sealed.
13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates
With pleasant fruits,
Fragrant henna with spikenard,
14 Spikenard and saffron,
Calamus and cinnamon,
With all trees of frankincense,
Myrrh and aloes,
With all the chief spices—
15 A fountain of gardens,
A well of (N)living waters,
And streams from Lebanon.

The Shulamite

16 Awake, O north wind,
And come, O south!
Blow upon my garden,
That its spices may flow out.
(O)Let my beloved come to his garden
And eat its pleasant (P)fruits.

Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 4:2 bereaved
  2. Song of Solomon 4:4 Small shields
  3. Song of Solomon 4:10 fragrance
  4. Song of Solomon 4:12 locked or barred