Song of Solomon

1Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine,

2Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.

3Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the righteous love thee.

4I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

5Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.

6Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.

7If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and follow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents of the shepherds.

8To my company of horsemen, in Pharao’s chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.

9Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove’s, thy neck as jewels.

10We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

11While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.

12A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts.

13A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.

14Behold thou art fair, O my love, behold thou art fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.

15Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.

16The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.

17이 번역에는 이 구절이 포함되어 있지 않습니다.

1Bài ca tuyệt diệu của Sa-lô-môn.

2Ân ái của anh còn ngọt ngào hơn rượu.

3thảo nào các thiếu nữ mê say mộ mến !

4Thương yêu ngài phải lẽ biết bao nhiêu !

5như lều Kê-đa, tựa trướng Xan-ma.

6nhưng vườn nho của tôi, tôi lại không canh giữ !

7bên đàn vật của các bạn anh.

8mà dẫn dê con của nàng đi ăn quanh các lều mục tử.

9ngậm dây cương xa giá Pha-ra-ô.

10cổ nàng đeo chuỗi ngọc.

11các anh đây sẽ làm sẵn cho nàng.

12dầu cam tùng của tôi toả hương thơm ngát.

13nằm gọn trên ngực tôi.

14trong vườn nho Ên Ghe-đi.

15Đôi mắt nàng là một cặp bồ câu.

16Giường chúng ta là cánh đồng xanh ngát.

17và ván ghép tường là trắc bá diệp.