雅歌 第 8 章

¹巴不得你像我的兄弟，像吃我母親奶的兄弟；我在外頭遇見你就與你親嘴，誰也不輕看我。O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

²我必引導你，領你進我母親的家；我可以領受教訓，也就使你喝石榴汁釀的香酒。I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

³他的左手必在我頭下；他的右手必將我抱住。His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

⁴耶路撒冷的眾女子啊，我囑咐你們：不要驚動、不要叫醒我所親愛的，等他自己情願（不要叫醒……情願：或譯不要激動愛情，等他自發）。I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

⁵那靠著良人從曠野上來是誰呢？（新娘）我在蘋果樹下叫醒你。你母親在的那裡為你劬勞；生養你的在那裡為你劬勞。Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

⁶求你將我放在你心上如印記，帶在你臂上如戳記。因為愛情如死之堅強，嫉恨如陰間之殘忍；所發的電光是火焰的電光，是耶和華的烈焰。Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

⁷愛情，眾水不能息滅，大水也不能淹沒。若有人拿家中所有的財寶要換愛情，就全被藐視。（新娘的兄弟）Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

⁸我們有一小妹；他的兩乳尚未長成，人來提親的日子，我們當為他怎樣辦理？We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

⁹他若是牆，我們要在其上建造銀塔；他若是門，我們要用香柏木板圍護他。（新娘）If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

¹⁰我是牆；我兩乳像其上的樓。那時，我在他眼中像得平安的人。（新郎）I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

¹¹所羅門在巴力哈們有一葡萄園；他將這葡萄園交給看守的人，為其中的果子必交一千舍客勒銀子。Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

¹²我自己的葡萄園在我面前。所羅門哪，一千舍客勒歸你，二百舍客勒歸看守果子的人。My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

¹³你這住在園中的，同伴都要聽你的聲音，求你使我也得聽見。（新娘）Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

¹⁴我的良人哪，求你快來！如羚羊或小鹿在香草山上。Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.