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.
1All night long on my bed
I looked for the one my heart loves;
I looked for him but did not find him.
2I 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.
3The watchmen found me
as they made their rounds in the city.
‘Have you seen the one my heart loves?’
4Scarcely 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,
to the room of the one who conceived me.
5Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.
6Who is this coming up from the wilderness
like a column of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and incense
made from all the spices of the merchant?
7Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,
escorted by sixty warriors,
the noblest of Israel,
8all of them wearing the sword,
all experienced in battle,
each with his sword at his side,
prepared for the terrors of the night.
9King Solomon made for himself the carriage;
he made it of wood from Lebanon.
10Its posts he made of silver,
its base of gold.
Its seat was upholstered with purple,
its interior inlaid with love.
Daughters of Jerusalem, 11come out,
and look, you daughters of Zion.
Look3:10,11 Or interior lovingly inlaid / by the daughters of Jerusalem. / 11 Come out, you daughters of Zion, / and look 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.
