| 雅歌 | Song of Songs |
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| 1万望你是我的兄弟，吮过我母亲的乳房，好叫我在外边遇见你时，能亲吻你，而不致受人轻视。 | 1If only you were my brother,
nursed at my mother's breasts,
I could kiss you outside if we met,
without anyone despising me for it. |
| 2我要引领你走进我母亲的家，进入怀孕我者的内室；给你喝调香的美酒，石榴的甘酿。 | 2I would lead and bring you
into the house of my mother,
and you would teach me there.
I would give you wine with spice
and the juice of my pomegranates. |
| 3他的左手在我头下，他的右手紧抱着我。 | 3His left hand is under my head;
his right arm embraces me. |
| 4耶路撒冷女郎！我恳求你们，不要惊醒，也不要唤醒我的爱，让她自便罢！ | 4I beg you, daughters of Jerusalem,
by the powers of nature,
not to arouse or stir up love
before her time has come. |
| 5如同在「默示录」里，末世的预言常有重复，却也常有演进：「雅歌」的题目亦然。在这一幕内，最大的演进是8:1-3一段。新娘（天主的百姓）用这些话，表示她如何切盼上主可见的来临，希望他在默西亚的身上藉人性亲自显现，成为「厄玛奴耳」（「天主与我们同在」，依7:14; 8:8）。她盼望天主取人性成为她可见的哥哥和净配，而她则为新娘，为妹妹。总而言之，这热诚的新娘，是在渴望天主圣子降生。 | 5Who is this coming from the wilderness
leaning upon her lover?
I woke you under the apple tree,
where you were conceived by your mother,
where she who bore you was in travail. |
| 6从旷野里上来，那偎依著自己的爱人的，是谁？在苹果树下我唤醒了你，在那里你的母亲怀孕了你，在那里生养你的，为你受了产痛。 | 6Set me as a seal on your heart,
set me as a seal on your arm.
For love is strong as death;
its jealousy lasting as the power of death,
it burns like a blazing fire,
it blazes like a mighty flame. |
| 7请将我有如印玺，放在你的心上，有如印玺，放在你肩上，因为爱情猛如死亡，妒爱顽如阴府：它的焰是火焰，是上主的火燄。 | 7No flood can extinguish love
nor river submerge it.
If a man were to buy love
with all the wealth of his house,
contempt is all he would purchase. |
| 8洪流不能熄灭爱情，江河不能将它冲去，如有人献出全副家产想购买爱情，必受人轻视。 | 8We have a little sister
with her breasts yet unformed.
What shall we do for her
when her courtship is begun? |
| 9我们的妹妹尚小，还没有乳房；到了她议婚之日，为我们的妹妹，我们将作什么？ | 9If she were a rampart,
we would build towers of silver on it.
If she were a gate,
we would enclose it with panels of cedar. |
| 10她若是墙，我们就在上面建造银垛她若是门，我们就用香柏木闩来关锁。 | 10I am a rampart
and my breasts are towers;
thus I have become, in his eyes,
like one who brings peace. |
| 11我是一道墙，我的乳房如同塔。我在他眼里，实如获得和平的女郎。 | 11At Baal-hamon Solomon had a vineyard,
which he gave over to caretakers;
for its fruit, each had to pay:
a thousand pieces of silver. |
| 12撒罗满在巴耳哈孟有个葡萄园，他将这葡萄园委托给看守的人；每人为园中的果子，应交一千两银子。 | 12But my vineyard is mine and I myself keep it.
You, Solomon, may have the thousand,
and the fruit keepers two hundred pieces. |
| 13那属我的葡萄园，就在我面前；撒罗满！一千两银子归你，二百两归看守果子的人。 | 13You wh-o dwell in the gardens,
with your friends in attendance,
let me hear your utterance. |
| 14你这住在果园中的女郎，愿你使我听到你的声音！同伴们都在等候细听。 | 14Make haste, my love;
be like a gazelle or a young stag
on the spice-laden hills! |
