这是所罗门的歌,是歌中最美妙的歌。

女子:

深深地吻我吧!
因为你的爱情比美酒更香甜。
你的美名如此芬芳,
如同倒出来的香膏,
难怪少女们都爱慕你。
你带我走,让我们一起奔跑吧!
王啊,把我带进你的寝宫吧!

耶路撒冷的少女:

我们为你欢喜快乐,
我们要颂扬你那胜似美酒的爱情。

女子:

难怪少女们都爱慕你!
耶路撒冷的少女啊!
我虽然黑似基达的帐篷,
却美如所罗门的锦帐。
不要因为我被太阳晒黑就看不起我。
这是因为我的兄弟恼恨我,
要我在烈日之下看守葡萄园,
使我无暇照顾自己[a]
我心爱的人啊,告诉我吧,
你在哪里牧羊?
中午带羊去哪里歇息?
我何必在你同伴的羊群旁流浪,
像风尘女子一样呢?

耶路撒冷的少女:

绝色佳人啊!
要是你不知道,
就跟着羊群的足迹,
到牧人的帐篷边喂养你的山羊羔吧。

男子:

我的爱人啊,
你好比法老战车上套的牝马,
引人注目。
10 耳环辉映你的脸颊,
珠链轻衬你的颈项。
11 我们要为你打造镶有银珠的金饰。

女子:

12 王坐席的时候,
我身上的哪哒香膏芬芳四溢。
13 我的良人靠在我怀中,
如同一袋没药。
14 我的良人在我眼中,
好像隐·基底葡萄园中的凤仙花。

男子:

15 我的爱人啊!
你真是美极了!美极了!
你的眼神纯情专一,好像鸽子的眼睛。

女子:

16 我的良人啊!
你真英俊!真可爱!
我们以青草作床榻,
17 以香柏树作屋梁,
以松树作椽子。

女子:

我是沙仑平原的玫瑰花,
是谷中的百合花。

男子:

我的爱人在众少女中,
就像荆棘中的一朵百合花。

女子:

我的良人在众男子中,
好像林中的一棵苹果树。
我欢欢喜喜地坐在他的树荫下,
轻尝他香甜无比的果子。
他带我走进宴席大厅,
众人都看见他对我充满柔情爱意。
请用葡萄干来补充我的力气,
用苹果来提振我的精神,
因为我思爱成病。
他的左手扶着我的头,
他的右手紧抱着我。
耶路撒冷的少女啊!
我指着羚羊和田野的母鹿[b]吩咐你们,
不要叫醒或惊动爱情,
等它自发吧。

听啊!是我良人的声音,
他攀过高岗,跃过山丘,
终于来了!
我的良人好像羚羊和幼鹿。
看啊,他就在墙外,
正从窗户往里观看,
从窗棂间往里窥视。
10 他对我说:
“我的爱人,起来吧!
我的佳偶,跟我来!
11 你看!冬天过去了,
雨水止住了。
12 大地百花盛开,
百鸟争鸣的季节已经来临,
田野也传来斑鸠的叫声。
13 无花果快成熟了,
葡萄树也开满了花,
散发着阵阵芬芳。
我的爱人,起来吧;
我的佳偶,跟我来。”

男子:

14 我的鸽子啊,
你在岩石缝中,
在悬崖的隐秘处。
让我看看你的脸,
听听你的声音吧,
因为你的声音温柔,
你的脸庞秀丽。
15 为我们抓住那些狐狸,
抓住那些破坏葡萄园的小狐狸吧,
因为我们的葡萄树正在开花。

女子:

16 我的良人属于我,我也属于他。
他在百合花间牧放羊群。
17 我的良人啊,
凉风吹起、日影飞逝的时候,
但愿你像比特山的羚羊和小鹿一样快快回来。

我夜晚躺在床上,
思念着我心爱的人;
我寻找他,却找不到。
我要起来寻遍城里的大街小巷,
我要寻找我心爱的人。
我寻找他,却寻不到。
遇上了城中巡逻的守卫,
我就问他们:“你们看到我心爱的人了吗?”
我刚离开他们,便找到了我心爱的人。
我拉着他,不让他走;
我把他带回娘家,
到怀我者的卧室。
耶路撒冷的少女啊!
我指着羚羊和田野的母鹿吩咐你们,
不要叫醒或惊动爱情,
等它自发吧。

耶路撒冷的少女:

那从旷野上来,形状像烟柱,
散发着商人贩卖的没药、乳香等各样芬芳之气的是什么呢?
看啊,是所罗门的轿子,
周围是六十名勇士,
都是以色列的精兵。
他们个个骁勇善战,手持利剑,
腰配战刀,防备夜间的偷袭。
所罗门王用黎巴嫩木为自己制造了一顶轿子。
10 银轿柱、金靠背、紫锦坐垫,
轿子里面的装饰都是耶路撒冷少女们用爱情编织的。
11 锡安的少女啊,
出去看看所罗门王的风采吧!
他头上的王冠是他母亲在他成婚那天,
在他心中欢快之日为他戴上的。

Footnotes

  1. 1:6 我无暇照顾自己”希伯来文是“我却无法照料自己的葡萄园。”
  2. 2:7 羚羊和田野的母鹿”在希伯来文中与“万军之全能上帝”发音相似。

Solomon’s Song of Songs.(A)

She[a]

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—
    for your love(B) is more delightful than wine.(C)
Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;(D)
    your name(E) is like perfume poured out.
    No wonder the young women(F) love you!
Take me away with you—let us hurry!
    Let the king bring me into his chambers.(G)

Friends

We rejoice and delight(H) in you[b];
    we will praise your love(I) more than wine.

She

How right they are to adore you!

Dark am I, yet lovely,(J)
    daughters of Jerusalem,(K)
dark like the tents of Kedar,(L)
    like the tent curtains of Solomon.[c]
Do not stare at me because I am dark,
    because I am darkened by the sun.
My mother’s sons were angry with me
    and made me take care of the vineyards;(M)
    my own vineyard I had to neglect.
Tell me, you whom I love,
    where you graze your flock
    and where you rest your sheep(N) at midday.
Why should I be like a veiled(O) woman
    beside the flocks of your friends?

Friends

If you do not know, most beautiful of women,(P)
    follow the tracks of the sheep
and graze your young goats
    by the tents of the shepherds.

He

I liken you, my darling, to a mare
    among Pharaoh’s chariot horses.(Q)
10 Your cheeks(R) are beautiful with earrings,
    your neck with strings of jewels.(S)
11 We will make you earrings of gold,
    studded with silver.

She

12 While the king was at his table,
    my perfume spread its fragrance.(T)
13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh(U)
    resting between my breasts.
14 My beloved(V) is to me a cluster of henna(W) blossoms
    from the vineyards of En Gedi.(X)

He

15 How beautiful(Y) you are, my darling!
    Oh, how beautiful!
    Your eyes are doves.(Z)

She

16 How handsome you are, my beloved!(AA)
    Oh, how charming!
    And our bed is verdant.

He

17 The beams of our house are cedars;(AB)
    our rafters are firs.

She[d]

I am a rose[e](AC) of Sharon,(AD)
    a lily(AE) of the valleys.

He

Like a lily among thorns
    is my darling among the young women.

She

Like an apple[f] tree among the trees of the forest
    is my beloved(AF) among the young men.
I delight(AG) to sit in his shade,
    and his fruit is sweet to my taste.(AH)
Let him lead me to the banquet hall,(AI)
    and let his banner(AJ) over me be love.
Strengthen me with raisins,
    refresh me with apples,(AK)
    for I am faint with love.(AL)
His left arm is under my head,
    and his right arm embraces me.(AM)
Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you(AN)
    by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
    until it so desires.(AO)

Listen! My beloved!
    Look! Here he comes,
leaping across the mountains,
    bounding over the hills.(AP)
My beloved is like a gazelle(AQ) or a young stag.(AR)
    Look! There he stands behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
    peering through the lattice.
10 My beloved spoke and said to me,
    “Arise, my darling,
    my beautiful one, come with me.
11 See! The winter is past;
    the rains are over and gone.
12 Flowers appear on the earth;
    the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
    is heard in our land.
13 The fig tree forms its early fruit;(AS)
    the blossoming(AT) vines spread their fragrance.
Arise, come, my darling;
    my beautiful one, come with me.”

He

14 My dove(AU) in the clefts of the rock,
    in the hiding places on the mountainside,
show me your face,
    let me hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet,
    and your face is lovely.(AV)
15 Catch for us the foxes,(AW)
    the little foxes
that ruin the vineyards,(AX)
    our vineyards that are in bloom.(AY)

She

16 My beloved is mine and I am his;(AZ)
    he browses among the lilies.(BA)
17 Until the day breaks
    and the shadows flee,(BB)
turn, my beloved,(BC)
    and be like a gazelle
or like a young stag(BD)
    on the rugged hills.[g](BE)

All night long on my bed
    I looked(BF) for the one my heart loves;
    I looked for him but did not find him.
I will get up now and go about the city,
    through its streets and squares;
I will search for the one my heart loves.
    So I looked for him but did not find him.
The watchmen found me
    as they made their rounds in the city.(BG)
    “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”
Scarcely had I passed them
    when I found the one my heart loves.
I held him and would not let him go
    till I had brought him to my mother’s house,(BH)
    to the room of the one who conceived me.(BI)
Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you(BJ)
    by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
    until it so desires.(BK)

Who is this coming up from the wilderness(BL)
    like a column of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh(BM) and incense
    made from all the spices(BN) of the merchant?
Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,
    escorted by sixty warriors,(BO)
    the noblest of Israel,
all of them wearing the sword,
    all experienced in battle,
each with his sword at his side,
    prepared for the terrors of the night.(BP)
King Solomon made for himself the carriage;
    he made it of wood from Lebanon.
10 Its posts he made of silver,
    its base of gold.
Its seat was upholstered with purple,
    its interior inlaid with love.
Daughters of Jerusalem, 11 come out,
    and look, you daughters of Zion.(BQ)
Look[h] on King Solomon wearing a crown,
    the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
    the day his heart rejoiced.(BR)

Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 1:2 The main male and female speakers (identified primarily on the basis of the gender of the relevant Hebrew forms) are indicated by the captions He and She respectively. The words of others are marked Friends. In some instances the divisions and their captions are debatable.
  2. Song of Songs 1:4 The Hebrew is masculine singular.
  3. Song of Songs 1:5 Or Salma
  4. Song of Songs 2:1 Or He
  5. Song of Songs 2:1 Probably a member of the crocus family
  6. Song of Songs 2:3 Or possibly apricot; here and elsewhere in Song of Songs
  7. Song of Songs 2:17 Or the hills of Bether
  8. Song of Songs 3:11 Or interior lovingly inlaid / by the daughters of Jerusalem. / 11 Come out, you daughters of Zion, / and look

众使徒接纳保罗

十四年后,我和巴拿巴又去耶路撒冷,并带了提多同去。 我是遵照上帝的启示去的。我私下拜会了那些有名望的教会领袖,陈明我在外族人中间所传的福音,免得我过去或是现在的努力都白费了。 跟我同去的提多虽然是希腊人,但没有人勉强他接受割礼。

事情的缘由是因为有一些假信徒偷偷混了进来,要窥探我们在基督耶稣里享有的自由,想叫我们做律法的奴隶。 但为了叫福音的真理常在你们当中,我们丝毫没有向他们妥协。

至于那些德高望重的教会领袖,他们的地位对我来说无关紧要,因为上帝不以貌取人。他们对我所传的并没有增加什么。 相反,他们都已看到,上帝差遣了我向外族人传福音,就像祂差遣了彼得向犹太人传福音一样。 上帝感动了彼得,呼召他做犹太人的使徒,祂也同样感动了我,呼召我做外族人的使徒。 当时被誉为教会柱石的雅各、彼得和约翰明白了上帝赐给我的恩典之后,就与我和巴拿巴用右手行相交之礼,让我们向外族人传福音,他们向受割礼的人传福音。 10 他们只要求我们照顾那些贫困的人,这正是我一向热衷的事。

保罗面责彼得

11 后来,彼得到了安提阿,因他做错了事,我就当面责备他。 12 从雅各那里来的人还没有抵达之前,彼得和外族的信徒一起吃饭。但那些人抵达以后,彼得因为怕那些坚持行割礼的犹太人批评,就与外族的信徒分开了。 13 其他的犹太基督徒也跟着彼得装假,甚至连巴拿巴也随从了他们的虚伪。 14 我看见他们不照福音的真理行,就当众对彼得说:“你身为犹太人,如果行事为人像外族人,不像犹太人,又怎能强迫外族人按犹太人的规矩生活呢?”

15 我们生来是犹太人,不是外族罪人, 16 但我们知道人被称为义人不是靠遵行律法,而是靠信耶稣基督。所以我们信了基督耶稣,以便因信基督而被称为义人,而不是靠遵行律法,因为无人能够靠遵行律法而被称为义人。 17 如果我们指望在基督里被称为义人,结果却仍是罪人,难道基督助长罪恶吗?当然不是!

18 倘若我重建我所拆毁的东西,就表明我是罪人。 19 事实上,我因无法满足律法的要求而向律法死了,不再受它的束缚,使我可以为上帝而活。 20 我已经与基督一同被钉在十字架上,现在活着的不再是我,而是基督活在我里面。我现在是靠信上帝的儿子而活着,祂爱我,为我舍命。 21 我不废弃上帝的恩典,倘若靠遵行律法可以成为义人,基督的死便毫无意义了。

Paul Accepted by the Apostles

Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem,(A) this time with Barnabas.(B) I took Titus(C) along also. I went in response to a revelation(D) and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles.(E) I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race(F) in vain. Yet not even Titus,(G) who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.(H) This matter arose because some false believers(I) had infiltrated our ranks to spy on(J) the freedom(K) we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves. We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel(L) might be preserved for you.

As for those who were held in high esteem(M)—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism(N)—they added nothing to my message.(O) On the contrary, they recognized that I had been entrusted with the task(P) of preaching the gospel to the uncircumcised,[a](Q) just as Peter(R) had been to the circumcised.[b] For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle(S) to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle(T) to the Gentiles. James,(U) Cephas[c](V) and John, those esteemed as pillars,(W) gave me and Barnabas(X) the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me.(Y) They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles,(Z) and they to the circumcised. 10 All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor,(AA) the very thing I had been eager to do all along.

Paul Opposes Cephas

11 When Cephas(AB) came to Antioch,(AC) I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James,(AD) he used to eat with the Gentiles.(AE) But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.(AF) 13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas(AG) was led astray.

14 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel,(AH) I said to Cephas(AI) in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew.(AJ) How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?(AK)

15 “We who are Jews by birth(AL) and not sinful Gentiles(AM) 16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law,(AN) but by faith in Jesus Christ.(AO) So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[d] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.(AP)

17 “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners,(AQ) doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!(AR) 18 If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.

19 “For through the law I died to the law(AS) so that I might live for God.(AT) 20 I have been crucified with Christ(AU) and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.(AV) The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God,(AW) who loved me(AX) and gave himself for me.(AY) 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law,(AZ) Christ died for nothing!”[e]

Footnotes

  1. Galatians 2:7 That is, Gentiles
  2. Galatians 2:7 That is, Jews; also in verses 8 and 9
  3. Galatians 2:9 That is, Peter; also in verses 11 and 14
  4. Galatians 2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of … justified on the basis of the faithfulness of
  5. Galatians 2:21 Some interpreters end the quotation after verse 14.