13:1 Isa 26:9; Wim 5:6Usiku kucha kwenye kitanda changu
nilimtafuta yule moyo wangu umpendaye;
nilimtafuta, lakini sikumpata.
2Sasa nitaondoka na kuzunguka mjini,
katika barabara zake na viwanja;
nitamtafuta yule moyo wangu umpendaye.
Kwa hiyo nilimtafuta lakini sikumpata.
33:3 Wim 5:7; Isa 21:6-11Walinzi walinikuta
walipokuwa wakizunguka mji.
Nikawauliza, “Je, mmemwona
yule moyo wangu umpendaye?”
43:4 Wim 8:2; 6:9; 8:5; Rum 8:35-39; Mit 8:17; 4:13Kitambo kidogo tu baada ya kuwapita
nilimpata yule moyo wangu umpendaye.
Nilimshika na sikumwachia aende
mpaka nilipomleta katika nyumba ya mama yangu,
katika chumba cha yule aliyenichukua mimba.
53:5 Wim 2:7; 8:4Binti za Yerusalemu, ninawaagiza
kwa paa na kwa ayala wa shambani:
Msichochee wala kuamsha mapenzi
hata yatakapotaka yenyewe.
Shairi La Tatu
Mpenzi
63:6 Wim 8:6; 4:6, 14; Kut 30:34; Yer 2:2Ni nani huyu anayekuja kutoka jangwani
kama nguzo ya moshi,
anayenukia manemane na uvumba
iliyotengenezwa kwa vikolezo vyote
vya mfanyabiashara?
73:7 1Sam 8:11Tazama! Ni gari la Solomoni
lisindikizwalo na mashujaa sitini,
walio wakuu sana wa Israeli,
83:8 Ay 15:22; Za 91:5wote wamevaa panga,
wote wazoefu katika vita,
kila mmoja na upanga wake pajani,
wamejiandaa kwa ajili ya hofu za usiku.
9Mfalme Solomoni alijitengenezea gari;
alilitengeneza kwa mbao kutoka Lebanoni.
103:10 Mt 22:37; Efe 3:19; Rum 5:8Nguzo zake alizitengeneza kwa fedha,
kitako chake kwa dhahabu.
Kiti chake kilipambwa kwa zambarau,
gari lake likanakshiwa njumu kwa upendo
na binti za Yerusalemu.
113:11 Isa 3:16; 54:5; 32:9-13; 62:5; Yer 3:14Tokeni nje, ninyi binti za Sayuni,
mkamtazame Mfalme Solomoni akiwa amevaa taji,
taji ambalo mama yake alimvika
siku ya arusi yake,
siku ambayo moyo wake ulishangilia.
1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 5I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
6¶ Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
7Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. 8They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. 9King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.3.9 a chariot: or, a bed 10He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. 11Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
