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女王のような高貴な人よ。
軽やかに歩くあなたの足はなんと美しいことか。
丸くてふっくらしたももは、
名人が磨き上げた宝石のようだ。
あなたのほぞは、ぶどう酒をなみなみとつぐ
器のように愛らしい。
腰は、ゆりの花をあしらった小麦の山のようだ。
乳房は、ふたごの子鹿のようにかわいらしい。
首は、象牙の塔のように形がよく、なめらかで、
目はバテ・ラビムの門のほとりにある
ヘシュボンの池のように澄んでいる。
鼻は、ダマスコを見下ろすレバノンのやぐらのように、
形がよく、筋が通っている。
カルメル山が山々の冠となってそびえているように、
あなたの髪はあなたの冠だ。
私は、その豊かな髪のとりこになってしまった。
ああ、あなたはなんとすてきな人なのだろう。
そばへ行くだけで、すっかり夢中になる。
あなたはやしの木のように背が高く、
ほっそりしている。乳房はなつめやしの房のようだ。
私は言った。やしの木によじ登って、枝をつかもう。
あなたの乳房はぶどうの房のよう、
あなたの口の匂いはりんごの香りのようであればいい。
あなたの口づけは、
最上のぶどう酒のようにすばらしく、
なめらかで甘く、眠っている者のくちびるを開かせる。」

おとめ

10 私は愛する方のもの、あの方の望みどおりの者。
11 私の愛する方、さあ、野原へ出かけ、
村にしばらく滞在しましょう。
12 早起きしてぶどう園へ行き、
ぶどうの木が芽を出したか、花が咲いたか、
ざくろの木が花をつけたかを見てみましょう。
そのぶどう園で、私の愛をあなたにささげます。
13 そこでは恋なすびが香りを放ち、
私たちの門のそばには、
古いのも新しいのも取り混ぜた最高の果物があります。
それは私の愛する方のために、
わざわざたくわえておいたものです。」

おとめ

[a]How beautiful your sandaled feet,
    O prince’s(A) daughter!
Your graceful legs are like jewels,
    the work of an artist’s hands.
Your navel is a rounded goblet
    that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
    encircled by lilies.
Your breasts(B) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle.
Your neck is like an ivory tower.(C)
Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon(D)
    by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon(E)
    looking toward Damascus.
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.(F)
    Your hair is like royal tapestry;
    the king is held captive by its tresses.
How beautiful(G) you are and how pleasing,
    my love, with your delights!(H)
Your stature is like that of the palm,
    and your breasts(I) like clusters of fruit.
I said, “I will climb the palm tree;
    I will take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,
    the fragrance of your breath like apples,(J)
    and your mouth like the best wine.

She

May the wine go straight to my beloved,(K)
    flowing gently over lips and teeth.[b]
10 I belong to my beloved,
    and his desire(L) is for me.(M)
11 Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside,
    let us spend the night in the villages.[c]
12 Let us go early to the vineyards(N)
    to see if the vines have budded,(O)
if their blossoms(P) have opened,
    and if the pomegranates(Q) are in bloom(R)
    there I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes(S) send out their fragrance,
    and at our door is every delicacy,
both new and old,
    that I have stored up for you, my beloved.(T)

Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 7:1 In Hebrew texts 7:1-13 is numbered 7:2-14.
  2. Song of Songs 7:9 Septuagint, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew lips of sleepers
  3. Song of Songs 7:11 Or the henna bushes

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.