1Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.
1 Haay! Ni ya wayboro hanno no, ya ay baakwa! Haay! Ni ga boori! Ni gonda mo sanda koloŋay wane cine ni bangumo ra. Ni boŋ hamno ga hima hincin kuru kaŋ goono ga zumbu ka fun Jileyad tondo boŋ.
2Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
2 Ni hinjey mo ga hima sanda feeji kuru, hõseyaŋ taji, Kaŋ yaŋ go ga fun nyumayyaŋ do. I ga sasare ihinka-hinka, ihinka-hinka, Baa afolloŋ mana gaze i ra.
3Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
3 Ni me kuurey ga hima sanda silli ciray, Ni meyo mo ihanno no. Ni gawaley ga hima garenad* dumbari ni bangumo ra.
4Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, whereon a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.
4 Ni jinda ga hima sanda Dawda cinari kuuko, Kaŋ i cina wongu jinay jisiyaŋ se, Nango kaŋ i na guuru koray zambar fo sarku, Wongaarey kulu korayey.
5Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
5 Ni fafa hinka sanda day jeer'ize taway hinka no jeeri nya do, Kaŋ yaŋ ga kuru waaliya bokey game ra.
6Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.
6 Ay g'ay koyyaŋ te zawul tondo do, Da lubban fando mo, Hala mo ma bo, kubay ma ban.
7You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
7 Ya nin ay baakwa, Ni ya ihanno no soosay, Laru kulu si ni gaa.
8Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
8 Ya ay wayhiijo, ma tun ka fun Liban ka kaa ay banda, Ma tun Liban ka kaa ay banda, Ma koy Amaana tondi boŋ ka fonnay. Senir da Hermon yolla gaa mo, Muusu beerey tondi guuso do, Mari tondi beerey do haray.
9You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
9 Ya ay wayme, ay wayhiijo, Ni baakasina n'ay bina di. Ni gunayaŋ folloŋ n'ay bina di, Da ni jinda hiiri folloŋ mo.
10How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
10 Ya ay waymo, ay wayhiijo, Man ni baakasina kaani misa, Ni baakasina bisa duvan* kaani sanda ifo cine! Ni jiyo hawo mo bisa maafe jinay kulu dumi haw kaani!
11Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
11 Ya ay wayhiijo, ni me kuurey ga yu dooru, Yu da wa go ni deena cire. Ni bankaarayey hawo mo ga hima sanda Liban haw.
12A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
12 Ya ay waymo, ay wayhiijo, Ni ya fari kaŋ i kali ka windi no, Hari-mo kaŋ i lutu, da day kaŋ go daabante mo.
13Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,
13 Ni kambey ya garenad kali hanno no kaŋ gonda tuuri ize kaano yaŋ, Danga alhinna da nardi* tilam,
14spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
14 Nardi, da safran, da kalamos da cirfa, Nga nda lubban tuurey kulu a banda, Da zawul da alowes*, Da yaazi jinay beerey kulu nooya care banda.
15a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon. Beloved
15 Ni ya hari-mo no, kali ra wane, Day hari fundikooni mo no, Da gooruyaŋ kaŋ ga zuru ka fun Liban. Wayhiijo ne:
16Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.
16 Ya azawa kambe hawo, ma mo hay. Ya dandi kambe hawo, ni mo ma kaa. Araŋ ma faaru ay kalo ra, Zama a yaazi jinayey hawo ma du ka fatta taray. Ay baakwa ma furo nga kalo ra, A ma nga tuuri izey ŋwa, kaani izey nooya.