¹O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

¹O da bi bil kakor moj brat, ki je sesal prsi matere moje! Ako bi te zalotila zunaj, bi te poljubila, in nihče bi me ne smel zaničevati.

²I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

²Peljala bi te, privedla te v matere svoje hišo, ti bi me poučeval; jaz bi te napajala z dišečim vinom, s sokom svojih margaranovih jabolk.

³His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

³Levica njegova je pod glavo mojo in z desnico svojo me objema.

⁴I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

⁴Rotim vas, hčere jeruzalemske, da ne prebudite in ne predramite ljubezni, dokler ji je drago!

⁵Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

⁵Kdo je ta, ki prihaja sem od puščave in se naslanja na ljubega svojega? Pod jablano sem te zbudil k ljubezni. Tam je bila v bolečinah s teboj mati tvoja, tam je trpela bolečine porodnica tvoja.

⁶Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

⁶Deni me kakor pečat na srce svoje, kakor pečat na ramo svojo! Kajti ljubezen je silna kakor smrt, njena gorečnost trdna [Ali: stanovitna.] kakor grob [Hebr. šeol.]; njen žar je žar ognja, plamen GOSPODOV.

⁷Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

⁷Velike vode ne morejo ugasiti ljubezni, ne reke je poplaviti. Ako bi hotel kdo dati vse imetje hiše svoje za ljubezen, le zaničevanje bi dobil!

⁸We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

⁸Sestro imamo, majhno, ki še nima prsi: kaj bomo storili s sestro svojo v dan, ko jo bodo snubili?

⁹If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

⁹Ako je zid, zgradimo na njej srebrn nadzidek v utrdbo; ako je ona duri, ogradimo jo z deskami cedrovimi.

¹⁰I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

¹⁰Jaz sem zid, in prsi moje so kakor stolpi. Tedaj sem bila v očeh njegovih kakor ona, ki je našla mir.

¹¹Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

¹¹Salomon je imel vinograd v Baal-hamonu; izročil je vinograd varuhom, da bi vsakteri prinesel za njegov sad tisoč srebrnikov.

¹²My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

¹²Moj vinograd, ki je meni izročen, je pred menoj; tisoč bodi tebi, o Salomon, in dvesto varuhom sadov njegovih.

¹³Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

¹³Ti, ki prebivaš na vrtih, tovariši poslušajo glas tvoj; daj mi ga slišati!Híti, ljubi moj, in bodi podoben gazeli ali mlademu jelenu v gorah balzamovih!

¹⁴Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

¹⁴Híti, ljubi moj, in bodi podoben gazeli ali mlademu jelenu v gorah balzamovih!