 歌:1.(sng)  [雅歌]    [Song of songs]    [Canticum]    [共 8 章] (六幕)   [思高聖經]
  
           第一幕 互相傾慕 (12-27)
  
 歌:1.1      雅歌，撒羅滿作。
 歌:1.2      [新娘]  願君以熱吻與我接吻! 因為你的愛撫甜於美酒。
 歌:1.3      你的香氣芬芳怡人，你的令名香液四射，為此少女都愛慕你。
 歌:1.4      願你拉著我隨你奔跑! 君王，願你引我進你的內室；我們都要因你歡樂踴躍，讚歎你那甜於酒的愛撫；怪不得眾少女都愛慕你!
 歌:1.5      耶路撒冷女郎! 我雖黑，郤秀麗，有如刻達爾的帳棚，又似撒耳瑪的營幕。
 歌:1.6      你們不要怪我黑，是太陽曬黑了我。我母親的兒子向我發怒，派我去看守葡萄園；而我自己的葡萄園，我郤沒有去看守。
 歌:1.7      我心愛的! 請告訴我：你在那兒放羊﹖中午又在那兒臥羊﹖別令我在你伴侶的羊群間，獨自徘徊!
 歌:1.8      [耶京女郎] 女中的佳麗! 妳若不知道，出去跟蹤羊群的足跡，靠近牧人的帳棚，牧放妳的小羊。
 歌:1.9      [新郎]  我的愛卿! 我看妳好似牝馬，套在法郎的御車上。
 歌:1.10     妳的雙頰配以耳環，妳的頸項繞以珠鍊，何其美麗!
 歌:1.11     我們要為妳製造金鍊，嵌上銀珠。
 歌:1.12     [新娘]  「君王正在坐席的時候，我的香膏已放出清香。
 歌:1.13     我的愛人有如沒藥囊，常繫在我的胸前；
 歌:1.14     我的愛人有如鳳仙花，生在恩革狄葡萄園中。」
 歌:1.15     [新郎]  我的愛卿，妳多麼美麗，多麼美麗! 妳的雙眼有如鴿眼。
 歌:1.16     [新娘]  我的愛人，你多麼英俊，多麼可愛! 我們的床榻，是青綠的草地。
 歌:1.17     [新郎]  香松作我們的屋樑，扁柏作我們的屋椽。
  
 歌:2.1      [新娘]  我是原野的水仙，谷中的百合。
 歌:2.2      [新郎]  我的愛卿在少女中，有如荊棘中的一朵百合花。
 歌:2.3      [新娘]  我的愛人在少年中，有如森林中的一棵蘋果樹；我愛坐在他的蔭下，他的果實令我滿口香甜。
 歌:2.4      他引我進入酒室，他插在我身上的旗幟是愛情。
 歌:2.5      請你們用葡萄乾來補養我，用蘋果來蘇醒我，因為我因愛成疾：
 歌:2.6      他的左手在我頭下，他的右手緊抱著我。
 歌:2.7      [新郎]  耶路撒冷女郎! 我指著田野間的羚羊或牝鹿，懇求你們，不要驚醒，不要喚醒我的愛，讓她自便吧!
  
           第二幕 互相追求 (28-35)
  
 歌:2.8      [新娘]  「聽，這是我愛人的聲音；看，他來了：跳過山崗，躍過丘陵。
 歌:2.9      我的愛人彷彿羚羊，宛如幼鹿；你看，他已站在我們的牆後，由窗外向裡凝視，由窗櫺往內窺望。
 歌:2.10     我的愛人招呼我說：「起來，我的愛卿! 快來，我的佳麗!
 歌:2.11     看，嚴冬已過，時雨止息，且已過去；
 歌:2.12     田野的花卉已露，唱歌的時期已近。在我們的地方已聽到斑鳩聲；
 歌:2.13     無花果已發出初果，葡萄樹已開花放香；起來，我的愛卿! 快來，我的佳麗!
 歌:2.14     我那在岩石縫中，在懸崖隱處的鴿子! 請讓我看到你的面貌，聽見你的聲音，因為你的聲音柔和可愛，你的面貌美麗動人。」
 歌:2.15     請你們為我捕捉狐狸，捕捉毀壞葡萄園的小狐狸，我們的葡萄園正在開花啊!
 歌:2.16     我的愛人屬於我，我屬於我的愛人；他在百合花間，牧放他的羊群。
 歌:2.17     趁晚風還未生涼，日影還未消失，我的愛人，願你仿效盟約山上的羚羊或幼鹿，向我歸來! 」
  
 歌:3.1      「夜間我在床上，尋覓我心愛的；我尋覓，卻沒有找著。
 歌:3.2      我遂起來，環城巡行．在市街上，在廣場，尋覓我心愛的；我尋覓，卻沒有找著。
 歌:3.3      城裏巡夜的衛兵，遇見了我，我便問道：「你們看見我心愛的嗎﹖」
 歌:3.4      我剛離開他們，就找到了我人愛的；我拉住他不放，領他到我母親家中，到懷孕我者的內室。」
 歌:3.5      [新郎]  「耶路撒冷女郎! 我指著田野間的羚羊或牝鹿，懇求你們，不要驚醒，不要喚醒我的愛，讓她自便吧! 」
  
           第三幕 愛情的成熟 (36-51)
  
 歌:3.6      [耶京女郎]  「那從曠野上來，狀如煙柱，發放沒藥、乳香以及各種舶來香料香氣的，是什麼﹖
 歌:3.7      看，撒羅滿的御轎，有六十勇士環繞，全是以色列的精旅，
 歌:3.8      個個手持利刃，善於戰鬥，腰間各配刀劍，以防夜襲。
 歌:3.9      撒羅滿王用黎巴嫩香柏，製造了一個寶座，
 歌:3.10     銀柱金頂，紫錦墊褥，中間繡花，是耶路撒冷女子愛情的結晶。
 歌:3.11     熙雍女郎! 出來觀看撒羅滿王，他頭帶王冠，是他母親在他新婚心靈歡樂之日，給他帶上的。」
  
 歌:4.1      [新郎]  「我的愛卿! 妳多麼美麗! 妳多麼美麗! 妳的兩眼隱在面紗後，有如一對鴿眼；妳的頭髮猶如由基肋阿得山下來的一群山羊。
 歌:4.2      妳的牙齒像一群剪毛後洗潔上來的母綿羊，都懹有雙胎，沒有不生育的。
 歌:4.3      妳的嘴唇像一縷朱紅線，妳的小口嬌美可愛；妳隱在面紗後的兩頰，有如分裂兩半的石榴。
 歌:4.4      妳的頸項宛如達味的寶塔，建築如寶壘，懸有上千的盾牌，都是武士的利器。
 歌:4.5      妳的兩個乳房，好似母羚羊的一對孿生小羚羊，牧放在百合花中。
 歌:4.6      趁晚風還未生涼，日影還未消失，我要到沒藥山，上乳香嶺。
 歌:4.7      我的愛卿! 妳是全美的，妳毫無瑕疵。
 歌:4.8      妳從黎巴嫩下來，我的新娘！從黎巴嫩下來，離開阿瑪納山巔，色尼爾和赫爾孟山頂，獅子的巢穴，豹子的山崗。
 歌:4.9      我的妹妹，我的新娘，妳奪去了我的心! 妳回目一顧，妳項鍊上的一顆珍珠，奪去了我的心。
 歌:4.10     我的妹妹，我的新娘! 妳的愛撫多麼甘甜，妳的愛撫甜過美酒，妳香液的芬芳超越一切的香料。
 歌:4.11     我的新娘! 妳的嘴唇滴流純蜜，妳的舌下有蜜有奶；妳衣服的芬芳好似乳香。
 歌:4.12     我的妹妹，我的新娘! 是關閉的花園，是一座關鎖的花園，是一個封鎖的泉源。
 歌:4.13     妳吐苗萌芽，形成了石榴園，內有各種珍奇的果木：鳳仙和玫瑰，
 歌:4.14     甘松和番紅，丁香和肉桂，各種乳香樹，沒藥和蘆薈，以及各種奇香異草。
 歌:4.15     妳是湧出的水泉，是從黎巴嫩流下的活水泉。」
 歌:4.16     [新娘] 「北風，吹來!南風，吹來! 吹向我的花園，使它的清香四溢。願我的愛人進入他的花園，品嘗其中的佳果! 」
  
 歌:5.1      [新郎]  「我的妹妹，我的新娘! 我進入了我的花園，採了我的沒藥和香草，吃了我的蜂巢和蜂蜜，喝了我的酒和奶。我的朋友! 請你們吃，請你們喝；我親愛的，請你們痛飲! 」
  
 歌:5.1.     第四幕 愛情的試探和鞏固 (52-610)
  
 歌:5.1      [新娘]  「我身雖睡，我心卻醒；我的愛人在敲門。」[新郎]  「我的妹妹，我的愛卿， 我的鴿子，我的完人，請給我開門! 我的頭上滿了露水，我的髮辮滿了露珠。」
 歌:5.2      [新娘]  「我已脫下長衣，怎能再穿﹖我已洗了腳，怎能再污﹖
 歌:5.3      我的愛人從門孔中伸進手來，我的五內大為感動。
 歌:5.4      我起來給我的愛人開門，一摸門閂，我的手就滴下沒藥，手指滴下純正的沒藥。
 歌:5.5      我給我的愛人開了門，我的愛人卻轉身走了；一見他走了，我好不傷心。我尋覓，卻沒有找著；我呼喚他，他卻不答應。
 歌:5.6      巡行城市的守衛遇見了我，打傷了我；看守城牆的人，奪去了我身上的外衣。
 歌:5.7      耶路撒冷女郎! 妳們若遇見了我的愛人，妳們要告訴他什麼﹖我懇求妳們告訴他：「我因愛成疾。」
 歌:5.8      [耶京女郎]  「妳這女中極美麗的啊! 我的愛人有什麼勝過其他的愛人﹖妳的愛人有什麼勝過其他的愛人，致使妳這懇求我們﹖」
 歌:5.9      [新娘]  「我的愛人，皎潔紅潤，超越萬人。
 歌:5.10     他的頭顱金碧輝煌，他的髮辮有如棕枝，漆黑有如烏鴉。
 歌:5.11     他的眼睛，有如站在溪旁的鵓鴿的眼；他的牙齒在奶中洗過，按在牙床上。
 歌:5.12     他的兩頰有如香花畦，又如芳草台；他的嘴唇有如百合花，滴流純正的沒藥。
 歌:5.13     他的手臂有如金管，鑲有塔爾史士寶石；他的軀幹是一塊象牙，鑲有碧玉
 歌:5.14     他的兩腿像一對大理石柱，置於純金座上；他的容貌彷彿黎巴嫩，壯麗如同香柏樹。
 歌:5.15     他滿面香甜，全然可愛。耶路撒冷女郎! 這就是我的愛人，這就是我的良友。」
  
 歌:6.1      [耶京女郎]  「妳這女中極美麗的啊! 妳的愛人往那裏去了﹖妳的愛人轉向何處去了﹖好讓我們同妳一起去尋找﹖」
 歌:6.2      [新娘]  「我的愛人到自己的花園，到香花畦去了，好在花園中牧羊，採摘百合花。
 歌:6.3      我屬於我的愛人，我的愛人屬於我，他在百合花間，牧放他的羊群。」
 歌:6.4      [新郎]  我的愛卿! 妳美麗有如提爾匝，可愛有如耶路撒冷，莊嚴有如整齊的軍旅。
 歌:6.5      轉過妳的眼去，不要看我，因為妳的眼使我迷亂；妳的頭髮猶如由基肋阿得山下來的一群山羊。
 歌:6.6      妳的牙齒像一群浴後上來的母綿羊，都懷有雙胎，沒有不生育的。
 歌:6.7      妳隱在面紗後的兩頰，有如分裂兩半的石榴。
 歌:6.8      皇后六十，嬪妃八十，少女無數，
 歌:6.9      但是，我的鴿子，我的完人，只有一個；她是她母親的獨生女，她是生養她者的愛女；少女見了她，都稱她有福；皇后與嬪妃，也都讚揚她。
 歌:6.10     [耶京女郎]  「那上升如晨曦，美麗似月亮，光耀若太陽，莊嚴如齊整軍旅的，是誰﹖」
  
           第五幕 愛情的享受(611-84)
  
 歌:6.11     [新娘]  我下到核桃園中，要欣賞谷中的新綠，看看葡萄樹是否發了芽，石榴樹是否開了花﹖
 歌:6.12     不知不覺，我的熱誠催促我登上了我民主上的御駕。
  
 歌:7.1      [耶京女郎]  「歸來，歸來! 叔拉米特! 歸來，歸來! 讓我們看看妳! 妳們要看叔拉米特什麼﹖看她在兩隊中舞蹈。」
 歌:7.2      [甲]  「公主! 妳的腳穿上涼鞋，是多麼美麗! 」[乙]「妳的兩腿，圓潤似玉，是藝術家手中的傑作。」 [甲]「妳的肚臍，有如圓樽，總不缺少調香的美酒。」
 歌:7.3      [乙]  「妳的肚腹，有如一堆麥粒，周圍有百合花圍繞。」
 歌:7.4      [甲]  「妳的兩個乳房，猶如羚羊的一對孿生的小羊。」
 歌:7.5      [乙]  「妳的頸項，猶如象牙寶塔。」 [甲] 「妳的兩眼，好似赫市朋城巴特辣賓城門旁的池塘。」[乙] 「妳的鼻子，彷彿黎巴嫩山上面對大馬士革的高塔。」
 歌:7.6      [甲]  「妳的頭顱聳立，好像加爾默耳山。」[甲]「妳頭上的髮辮有如紫綿。」 [甲乙]「君王就為這鬈髮所迷。」
 歌:7.7      [新郎]「極可愛的，悅人心意的女郎，妳是多麼美麗! 多麼可愛!
 歌:7.8      妳的身材修長如同棕櫚樹，妳的乳房猶如棕櫚樹上的兩串果實。
 歌:7.9      我決意要攀上棕櫚樹，摘取樹上的果實。妳的乳房，的確像兩串葡萄；妳噓氣芬芳，實如蘋果的香味。
 歌:7.10     妳的口腔滴流美酒，直流入我口內，直流到我唇齒間。」
 歌:7.11     [新娘]「我屬於我的愛人，他醉心戀慕著我。
 歌:7.12     我的愛人! 你來，我們往田野去，在鄉間過夜。
 歌:7.13     清晨起來，我們到葡萄園去，看看葡萄是否發芽，花朵是否怒放，石榴樹是否已開花；在那裏我要將我的愛獻給你。
 歌:7.14     蔓陀羅花香四溢，我們的門旁有各種美果，新的舊的都有；我心愛的，我都為你留下。」
  
 歌:8.1      萬望你的兄弟，吮過我母親的乳房，好叫我在外邊遇見你時，能親吻你，而不致受人輕視。
 歌:8.2      我要引領你走進我母親的家，進入懷孕我者的內室；給你喝調香的美酒，石榴的甘釀。
 歌:8.3      他的左手在我頭下，他的右手緊抱著我。」
 歌:8.4      [新郎]  耶路撒冷女郎! 我懇求妳們，不要驚醒，也不要喚我的愛，讓她自便吧!
  
           第六幕 愛情的圓滿(85-14)
 歌:8.5      [耶京女郎] 「從曠野裏上來，那偎依著自己的愛人的，是誰﹖」  [新郎] 「在蘋果樹下我喚醒了妳，在那裏妳的母親懷孕了妳，在那裏生養妳的，為妳受了產痛。」
 歌:8.6      [新娘]  「請將我有如印璽，放在你的心上，有如印璽，放在你肩上，因為愛情猛如死亡，妒愛頑如陰府：它的焰是火焰，是上主的火焰。」
 歌:8.7      [新郎]  「洪流不能熄滅愛情，江河不能將它沖去，如有人獻出全副家產想購買愛情，必受人輕視。」
 歌:8.8      [新娘兄弟]  「我們的妹妹尚小，還沒有乳房；到了她議婚之日，為我們的妹妹，我們將作什麼﹖
 歌:8.9      她若是牆，我們就在上面建造銀垛，她若是門，我們就用香柏木閂來關鎖。
 歌:8.10     [新娘]  「我是一道牆，我的乳房如同塔。我在他眼裏，實如獲得和平的女郎。」
 歌:8.11     [新娘兄弟]「撒羅滿在巴耳哈孟有個葡萄園，他將這葡萄園委托給看守的人；每人為園中的果子，應交一千兩銀子。」
 歌:8.12     [新郎]  「那屬我的葡萄園，就在我面前；撒羅滿! 一千兩銀子歸你，二百兩歸看守果子的人。」
 歌:8.13     [新郎]  「妳這住在果園中的女郎，願妳使我聽到妳的聲音! 同伴們都在等候細聽。
 歌:8.14     [新娘]  「我的愛人! 願你仿效郁香山上的羚羊或幼鹿，趕快跑來! 」   [雅歌完篇]

 sng:1.      [Song of songs]   8 chapters   [雅歌]  [英文版]
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 sng:1.2     B: Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth! More delightful is your love than wine!
 sng:1.3     Your name spoken is a spreading perfume- that is why the maidens love you.
 sng:1.4     Draw me!- D: We will follow you eagerly! B: Bring me, O king, to your chambers. D: With you we rejoice and exult, we extol your love; it is beyond wine: how rightly you are loved!
 sng:1.5     B: I am as dark-but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem- As the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Salma.
 sng:1.6     Do not stare at me because I am swarthy, because the sun has burned me. My brothers have been angry with me; they charged me with the care of the vineyards: my own vineyard I have not cared for.
 sng:1.7     B: Tell me, you whom my heart loves, where you pasture your flock, where you give them rest at midday, Lest I be found wandering after the flocks of your companions.
 sng:1.8     G: If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, Follow the tracks of the flock and pasture the young ones near the shepherds' camps.
 sng:1.9     G: To the steeds of Pharaoh's chariots would I liken you, my beloved:
 sng:1.10    Your cheeks lovely in pendants, your neck in jewels.
 sng:1.11    We will make pendants of gold for you, and silver ornaments.
 sng:1.12    B: For the king's banquet my nard gives forth its fragrance.
 sng:1.13    My lover is for me a sachet of myrrh to rest in my bosom.
 sng:1.14    My lover is for me a cluster of henna from the vineyards of Engedi.
 sng:1.15    G: Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved, ah, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves!
 sng:1.16    B: Ah, you are beautiful, my lover- yes, you are lovely. Our couch, too, is verdant;
 sng:1.17    the beams of our house are cedars, our rafters, cypresses.
   
 sng:2.1     I am a flower of Sharon, a lily of the valley.
 sng:2.2     G: As a lily among thorns, so is my beloved among women.
 sng:2.3     B: As an apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my lover among men. I delight to rest in his shadow, and his fruit is sweet to my mouth.
 sng:2.4     He brings me into the banquet hall and his emblem over me is love.
 sng:2.5     Strengthen me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
 sng:2.6     His left hand is under my head and his right arm embraces me.
 sng:2.7     I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and hinds of the field, Do not arouse, do not stir up love before its own time.
 sng:2.8     B: Hark! my lover-here he comes springing across the mountains, leaping across the hills.
 sng:2.9     My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Here he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattices.
 sng:2.10    My lover speaks; he says to me, "Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one, and come!
 sng:2.11    "For see, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone.
 sng:2.12    The flowers appear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the song of the dove is heard in our land.
 sng:2.13    The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines, in bloom, give forth fragrance. Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one, and come!
 sng:2.14    "O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the secret recesses of the cliff, Let me see you, let me hear your voice, For your voice is sweet, and you are lovely."
 sng:2.15    B: Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that damage the vineyards; for our vineyards are in bloom!
 sng:2.16    My lover belongs to me and I to him; he browses among the lilies.
 sng:2.17    Until the day breathes cool and the shadows lengthen, roam, my lover, Like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of Bether.
   
 sng:3.1     B: On my bed at night I sought him whom my heart loves- I sought him but I did not find him.
 sng:3.2     I will rise then and go about the city; in the streets and crossings I will seek Him whom my heart loves. I sought him but I did not find him.
 sng:3.3     The watchmen came upon me as they made their rounds of the city: Have you seen him whom my heart loves?
 sng:3.4     I had hardly left them when I found him whom my heart loves. I took hold of him and would not let him go till I should bring him to the home of my mother, to the room of my parent.
 sng:3.5     I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and hinds of the field, Do not arouse, do not stir up love before its own time.
 sng:3.6     D: What is this coming up from the desert, like a column of smoke Laden with myrrh, with frankincense, and with the perfume of every exotic dust?
 sng:3.7     Ah, it is the litter of Solomon; sixty valiant men surround it, of the valiant men of Israel:
 sng:3.8     All of them expert with the sword, skilled in battle, Each with his sword at his side against danger in the watches of the night.
 sng:3.9     King Solomon made himself a carriage of wood from Lebanon.
 sng:3.10    He made its columns of silver, its roof of gold, Its seat of purple cloth, its framework inlaid with ivory.
 sng:3.11    Daughters of Jerusalem, come forth and look upon King Solomon In the crown with which his mother has crowned him on the day of his marriage, on the day of the joy of his heart.
   
 sng:4.1     G: Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved, ah, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down the mountains of Gilead.
 sng:4.2     Your teeth are like a flock of ewes to be shorn, which come up from the washing, All of them big with twins, none of them thin and barren.
 sng:4.3     Your lips are like a scarlet strand; your mouth is lovely. Your cheek is like a half-pomegranate behind your veil.
 sng:4.4     Your neck is like David's tower girt with battlements; A thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the shields of valiant men.
 sng:4.5     Your breasts are like twin fawns, the young of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.
 sng:4.6     Until the day breathes cool and the shadows lengthen, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of incense.
 sng:4.7     You are all-beautiful, my beloved, and there is no blemish in you.
 sng:4.8     Come from Lebanon, my bride, come from Lebanon, come! Descend from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, From the haunts of lions, from the leopards' mountains.
 sng:4.9     You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride; you have ravished my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one bead of your necklace.
 sng:4.10    How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride, how much more delightful is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your ointments than all spices!
 sng:4.11    Your lips drip honey, my bride, sweetmeats and milk are under your tongue; And the fragrance of your garments is the fragrance of Lebanon.
 sng:4.12    G: You are an enclosed garden, my sister, my bride, an enclosed garden, a fountain sealed.
 sng:4.13    You are a park that puts forth pomegranates, with all choice fruits;
 sng:4.14    Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all kinds of incense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
 sng:4.15    You are a garden fountain, a well of water flowing fresh from Lebanon.
 sng:4.16    Arise, north wind! Come, south wind! blow upon my garden that its perfumes may spread abroad. B: Let my lover come to his garden and eat its choice fruits.
   
 sng:5.1     G: I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I gather my myrrh and my spices, I eat my honey and my sweetmeats, I drink my wine and my milk. D: Eat, friends; drink! Drink freely of love!
 sng:5.2     B: I was sleeping, but my heart kept vigil; I heard my lover knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my perfect one! For my head is wet with dew, my locks with the moisture of the night."
 sng:5.3     I have taken off my robe, am I then to put it on? I have bathed my feet, am I then to soil them?
 sng:5.4     My lover put his hand through the opening; my heart trembled within me, and I grew faint when he spoke.
 sng:5.5     I rose to open to my lover, with my hands dripping myrrh: With my fingers dripping choice myrrh upon the fittings of the lock.
 sng:5.6     I opened to my lover- but my lover had departed, gone. I sought him but I did not find him; I called to him but he did not answer me.
 sng:5.7     The watchmen came upon me as they made their rounds of the city; They struck me, and wounded me, and took my mantle from me, the guardians of the walls.
 sng:5.8     I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my lover- What shall you tell him?- that I am faint with love.
 sng:5.9     D: How does your lover differ from any other, O most beautiful among women? How does your lover differ from any other, that you adjure us so?
 sng:5.10    B: My lover is radiant and ruddy; he stands out among thousands.
 sng:5.11    His head is pure gold; his locks are palm fronds, black as the raven.
 sng:5.12    His eyes are like doves beside running waters, His teeth would seem bathed in milk, and are set like jewels.
 sng:5.13    His cheeks are like beds of spice with ripening aromatic herbs. His lips are red blossoms; they drip choice myrrh.
 sng:5.14    His arms are rods of gold adorned with chrysolites. His body is a work of ivory covered with sapphires.
 sng:5.15    His legs are columns of marble resting on golden bases. His stature is like the trees on Lebanon, imposing as the cedars.
 sng:5.16    His mouth is sweetness itself; he is all delight. Such is my lover, and such my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
   
 sng:6.1     D: Where has your lover gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your lover gone that we may seek him with you?
 sng:6.2     B: My lover has come down to his garden, to the beds of spice, To browse in the garden and to gather lilies.
 sng:6.3     My lover belongs to me and I to him; he browses among the lilies.
 sng:6.4     G: You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my beloved, as lovely as Jerusalem, as awe-inspiring as bannered troops.
 sng:6.5     Turn your eyes from me, for they torment me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.
 sng:6.6     Your teeth are like a flock of ewes which come up from the washing, All of them big with twins, none of them thin and barren.
 sng:6.7     Your cheek is like a half-pomegranate behind your veil.
 sng:6.8     There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and maidens without number-
 sng:6.9     One alone is my dove, my perfect one, her mother's chosen, the dear one of her parent. The daughters saw her and declared her fortunate, the queens and concubines, and they sang her praises;
 sng:6.10    D: Who is this that comes forth like the dawn, as beautiful as the moon, as resplendent as the sun, as awe-inspiring as bannered troops?
 sng:6.11    B: I came down to the nut garden to look at the fresh growth of the valley, To see if the vines were in bloom. if the pomegranates had blossomed.
 sng:6.12    Before I knew it, my heart had made me the blessed one of my kinswomen.
   
 sng:7.1     D: Turn, turn, O Shulammite, turn, turn, that we may look at you! B: Why would you look at the Shulammite as at the dance of the two companies?
 sng:7.2     D: How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of an artist.
 sng:7.3     Your navel is a round bowl that should never lack for mixed wine. Your body is a heap of wheat encircled with lilies.
 sng:7.4     Your breasts are like twin fawns, the young of a gazelle.
 sng:7.5     Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like the tower on Lebanon that looks toward Damascus.
 sng:7.6     You head rises like Carmel; your hair is like draperies of purple; a king is held captive in its tresses.
 sng:7.7     G: How beautiful you are, how pleasing, my love, my delight!
 sng:7.8     Your very figure is like a palm tree, your breasts are like clusters.
 sng:7.9     I said: I will climb the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches. Now let your breasts be like clusters of the vine and the fragrance of your breath like apples,
 sng:7.10    And your mouth like an excellent wine- B: that flows smoothly for my lover, spreading over the lips and the teeth.
 sng:7.11    I belong to my lover and for me he yearns.
 sng:7.12    Come, my lover, let us go forth to the fields and spend the night among the villages.
 sng:7.13    Let us go early to the vineyards, and see if the vines are in bloom, If the buds have opened, if the pomegranates have blossomed; There will I give you my love.
 sng:7.14    The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and at our doors are all choice fruits; Both fresh and mellowed fruits, my lover, I have kept in store for you.
   
 sng:8.1     Oh, that you were my brother, nursed at my mother's breasts! If I met you out of doors, I would kiss you and none would taunt me.
 sng:8.2     I would lead you, bring you in to the home of my mother. There you would teach me to give you spiced wine to drink and pomegranate juice.
 sng:8.3     His left hand is under my head and his right arm embraces me.
 sng:8.4     I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and hinds of the field, Do not arouse, do not stir up love, before its own time.
 sng:8.5     D: Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning upon her lover? G: Under the apple tree I awakened you; it was there that your mother conceived you, it was there that your parent conceived.
 sng:8.6     B: Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotion; its flames are a blazing fire.
 sng:8.7     Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away. Were one to offer all he owns to purchase love, he would be roundly mocked.
 sng:8.8     "Our sister is little and she has no breasts as yet. What shall we do for our sister when her courtship begins?
 sng:8.9     If she is a wall, we will build upon it a silver parapet; If she is a door, we will reinforce it with a cedar plank."
 sng:8.10    I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So now in his eyes I have become one to be welcomed.
 sng:8.11    B: Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he gave over the vineyard to caretakers. For its fruit one would have to pay a thousand silver pieces.
 sng:8.12    My vineyard is at my own disposal; the thousand pieces are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred for the caretakers of its fruit.
 sng:8.13    G: O garden-dweller, my friends are listening for your voice, let me hear it!
 sng:8.14    B: Be swift, my lover, like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices! [end of Song of songs]

