introduce
Song of Songs is a poem. It awakens our personal experience and goes deep into our hearts forever, because it writes about "love" and "being loved". The author arranged a dreamlike meeting between the two, just to uncover this mysterious veil. Seeking, meeting and avoiding are always charming and real, because the loved one finds himself facing the "other"-"the only one". The lover focused on finding her. She is his choice, unique and irreplaceable. So the title is: Song of Songs-Song of Songs. In Hebrew, the structure of the word is used to express the highest meaning: the song of essence or the song of supreme.
Readers still have to ask: shouldn't we give a title to the love expressed in the poem? We know that God is love, so can the love expressed in the poem be called God? Isn't God what the author talks about and expresses? Because in the Christian language, God is not only a sacred existence, but also a personalized existence. Elegant songs enthusiastically praise the lover's love-a kind of love that captures the whole heart, which can't help but make people feel that this is really a love compliment and has no religious tendency. In the literature of Egypt and India, there are also poems praising love, which make people finally integrate with infinite mystery. Does this example apply here?
Biblical culture has its own unique way. On the way to discover love, there were prophets first, who were swallowed up by the passionate love of the only one. From their experiences, human love has been refined and sublimated. Prophets have long described the Covenant between God and his people through the marriage they experienced (1: 2). We can find the same expression in Othello Psalm 2:4-22. The main differences between them are: Othello represents God abandoned by promiscuous Israel, and "beloved" Israel has no feelings and passion; Goya presents the feelings and thoughts of the "beloved". She is talking, feeling and analyzing. There are traces of time changes in this change. According to all the data, Yage was formed in the third and fourth centuries BC. At that time, a small number of people in Israel were trying their best to love, to be alert and not to let go of any inspiration. They are representatives of "Israeli virgins". The author of Goya is undoubtedly its spokesman. In addition, they also use the words of human love to express their special relationship with God. One day, this relationship will extend to the whole of Israel.
When the author of Goya spread his dream of love, he experienced the hope of voters again. God loves Israel and her land. The author is like the most radical minority in Israel, waiting for lovers to arrive as the king of Mercia and the spouse of voters. This background can explain many contrasts used in the song, which is strange if it is used in ordinary engaged couples. In fact, this is an allusion to the temples and people in Israel in the past.
Song of Songs, like the great prophets, used different language expressions, but they all wrote the experience of God's love, which inspired the whole dream and borrowed the image of human beings.
Jewish tradition regards it as a song of holy love. Didn't mention that God is intentional, he exists from beginning to end, and he is the "only" who loves and loves others.
The author of elegant songs
Song of Songs is regarded as Solomon's work: like other books in the Bible, it just borrows its name. The author is a saint in the third century BC and one of the authors of the Bible Book of Wisdom.
In Israel, as in many other countries, wedding ceremonies include "the groom's song" and "the bride's song" (Jer. 7: 34; 16:9; Silent 18:22). But we know from Egyptian love poems that in Israel, these pop songs leave no trace. In fact, our author is undoubtedly a saint. He does what a great musician does, completing great works of art with popular melodies. It is not difficult to see that in order to say what he has to say in a poetic way, he adopts the expression and external structure of traditional love songs. This is an explanation of Song of Songs, which is very important as a Bible.
Songs of Christian countries
In Christian countries, it is monks who own the songs among songs. They gave up the encounter of love in daily life and regarded Song of Songs as a fable and a painting of spiritual experience. The description of physical love can't catch their minds at all, but it helps them understand how strong, eager and devoted they are to the only love.
In fact, they want to return the treasure they seized to Christianity. In the twelfth century, the first sign of understanding the love of human nature appeared in Europe, which was ignored in the hundreds of years of barbarian invasion. Only then did the spiritual experience of several great monks and hermits become the decisive factor. After they reread and interpret the songs, people understand the mystery of love. At first, love songs and stories were quite rough, and gradually they were replaced by "court love" literature. Since then, the importance of marriage and love has been repeatedly affirmed for hundreds of years.
Sometimes, people will say in frustration that marriage is the grave of love. Film and television never forget to repeat the degenerate culture, but only express the love that the promise will never come true. The center of the song of songs is the desire for true love: it always comes from God, is as loyal as God, and transcends death.
chapter one
1 Excellent poem by Solomon.
bride
? Cover me with your kiss,
Your love is sweeter than wine.
Your ointment smells pleasant,
Your name is like perfume,
No wonder all the girls are eager for you.
Take me to see you,
Let's run together.
King, take me into your inner room!
We'll be excited for you,
We should appreciate your caress more than wine,
You really deserve love.
Daughter of Jerusalem,
Although I am black, I am cute.
Like Kidal's tent,
Like Solomon's curtains.
Stop staring at my dark face,
It was the sun that tanned me.
My mother's son is angry with me,
Let me work in the vineyard,
I can't look after my vineyard anymore.
My dear, please tell me:
Where are you herding sheep,
Where do you herd sheep at noon?
Why should I be next to your companion's sheep?
Wandering alone?
Ye Jing Girls Choir
The most beautiful woman,
If you don't know,
He went to follow the footsteps of the sheep,
Next to the shepherd's tent,
Feed your lamb.
bridegroom
My love,
I think you are like a mare in the Pharaoh's royal car.
10 How cute your cheeks are with earrings.
How beautifully your neck is wrapped in beads.
We will make a gold ring for you.
Inlaid with silver chains.
bride
When the king was resting in bed,
My perfume smells good.
13 My wife doesn't seem to have a medicine bag.
Often tied to my chest;
14 My love is like impatiens;
It's in Engedi's vineyard.
Bride and groom
My love,
How beautiful you are!
Your eyes are like pigeon eyes!
My love,
How handsome you are!
Our bed is evergreen!
17 cedar is our beam,
The fir tree is our rafter.
chapter two
I am Sharon's rose,
Lily in the valley.
My love is among women,
Like a lily among thorns.
bride
My love is in the crowd,
Like an apple tree in the forest.
I looked for his shade and sat in it.
Taste his fruit, full of sweetness.
He took me to the wine room,
The flag flying over my head is full of "love".
Please supplement my strength with raisins.
Cheer me up with apples,
Because I'm lovesick.
His left hand holds my head,
His right hand hugged me.
bridegroom
Daughter of Jerusalem,
I pointed to the antelope and roe deer in the field.
I implore you: before she volunteers,
Please don't inspire love.
bride
? 8 listen! This is my lover's voice!
Look! He climbed mountains and mountains,
Like gazelles and deer.
He is standing behind our wall,
Looking in through the window,
Gaze in from the pane.
10 My wife said to me:
bridegroom
"Get up, my beautiful love!
1 1 Come on, winter is over,
The rainy season stopped long ago.
12 the earth blooms;
The season of singing has come;
The cooing of turtledoves is endless.
The fig tree bears the first fruits,
The vines are fragrant.
Get up, my beauty,
Come, my love,
Come with me.
My pigeon is in a crack in the rock.
In the hiding place of the cliff.
Let me see your face,
Listen to your voice.
How lovely your face is!
How sweet your voice is! "
bride
15 catching foxes,
Catch the little fox that destroyed the vineyard,
Our vines are in blossom.
16 my lover belongs to me and I belong to him;
He is herding sheep among lilies.
17 Before the night wind blows,
The shadow of the sun did not disappear,
My love, come back,
Like antelopes and deer,
Running on the rugged mountain.
bride
chapter three
? I lie in bed at night,
Looking for someone I love,
I looked for him, but I couldn't find him;
I will stand up and walk around the city.
Cross the market square,
Looking for someone I love.
I looked for him, but I couldn't find him.
The guards patrolling the city met me,
"Have you seen my lover?"
I just left them,
I saw the person I love.
I grabbed him and wouldn't let him leave,
Take him to my mother's house,
Enter the room of the person who is pregnant with me.
bridegroom
Daughter of Jerusalem,
I pointed to the antelope and roe deer in the field.
I implore you: before she volunteers,
Please don't inspire love.
Ye Jing Girls Choir
? Who came up from the wilderness?
Shaped like a column of smoke,
It smells like myrrh and frankincense.
Look, that's Solomon's driver.
Sixty guard soldiers,
They are all elite brigades in Israel.
Eight people each carry a sword,
Good at fighting;
Everyone has a sharp blade around his waist,
In case of night attack.
King Solomon used fragrant wood from Lebanon,
Make yourself a driver,
10 silver column and gold back, purple brocade cushion,
Ivory inlaid on all sides.
1 1 xiyong's daughter, come on,
Look at King Solomon wearing a crown,
Today is his wedding day,
When he is in a good mood,
His mother put it on him.
bridegroom
chapter four
1 My love, how beautiful you are,
How beautiful you are!
Your eyes are like pigeon eyes behind a veil;
Your hair is like a flock of goats,
Rushed down from the Gilead Plateau.
Your teeth are like sheep that have just been sheared.
Cleaning and cleaning, in droves,
Opposite in pairs, arranged in pairs,
No one is lonely and abandoned;
Your lips are like a wisp of red silk;
Your voice is beautiful and charming;
Your cheeks are hidden behind the veil,
Like a pomegranate in two.
Your neck is like David's tower to show off his victory.
Hanging thousands of shields,
It is the weapon of a warrior;
Your breasts are like gazelle twins.
Eating grass among lilies.
Before the evening breeze blows,
The shadow of the sun did not disappear,
I have to go to myrrh mountain quickly,
Climb Frankincense Ridge.
My love,
You are flawless.
My bride, from Lebanon,
Leave Lebanon with me.
From the top of Amarna,
From the top of Cernier and Helmont,
From the lion's lair,
Come down from the mountain where leopards haunt.
My sister, my bride,
You took my thoughts away;
Look around with your eyes,
A pearl on your necklace,
Took my mind away.
My sister, my bride,
How sweet your love is!
Your love is better than wine,
The fragrance of your perfume is better than all spices!
My bride,
Your lips are dripping with nectar,
There is milk and honey under your tongue.
Your clothes exude the fragrance of Lebanon.
? My sister and my bride.
You are a locked garden;
A sealed spring, a sealed pool.
13 Your crops come from pomegranate garden.
Excellent fruit trees grow in it;
Impatiens and Gan Song,
14 glycerol rosin and saffron,
Acorus calamus and cinnamon,
There are all kinds of spice trees:
Myrrh, aloe vera and all the best spices.
You are the fountain in the garden.
This is a artesian well in Lebanon.
bride
16 north wind, get up!
Nanfeng, wake up!
Blowing into my garden,
Make it fragrant.
Let my love come to his garden,
Taste the best fruit.
bridegroom
chapter five
1 My sister, my bride,
I came to my garden,
Choose my myrrh and spices,
Ate my honey and beehive,
Drink my fresh milk and wine.
Friends, eat! Drink it!
My dearest people, cheers!
bride
? Although I sleep, my heart stays up all night.
I heard my lover knocking at the door:
"My sister, my love,
My perfect man, my pigeon,
Please open the door for me!
My head is covered with dew,
My hair was wet with night cream. "
3 "I have taken off my clothes, how can I put them on again?"
I have washed my feet, how can I get dirty again? "
My lover put his hand into the keyhole,
My heart trembled because of him.
I got up and opened the door.
My hand is dripping myrrh,
The current on the latch.
I opened the door for my lover:
My love has turned away!
My soul follows him!
I looked for him, but I couldn't find him.
I called, but he didn't answer.
The guards patrolling the city met me.
They wounded me;
The man guarding the city wall took my coat.
Daughter of Jerusalem,
I implore you:
If you find my lover,
What did you say to him?
Please tell him that I am lovesick.
Ye Jing Girls Choir
The most beautiful woman!
What does your lover have over others?
What does your lover have over others?
Causing you to beg us like this?
bride
? 10 My love is bright and ruddy,
This pavilion can hold more than ten thousand people.
1 1 His head is as bright as pure gold.
His hair is like palm leaves,
Black and bright, like a crow;
His eyes are like pigeons by the stream.
Soak in milk,
Set into gems;
13 His fragrant cheeks are like seedbeds of spices;
His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh.
14 His hands are like gold bars.
Decorate with jewels;
His body is like smooth ivory,
Set with sapphires;
15 His legs are like snowflake pillars.
Put it on a pure gold base,
He looks like Lebanon,
As beautiful as cedar.
His mouth is very sweet,
He is the most desirable.
Daughter of Jerusalem,
This is my lover, my friend.
Ye Jing Girls Choir
Chapter vi
1 The most beautiful woman,
Where is your lover?
Where did your lover go?
So that we can help you find it.
bride
My lover went to his garden,
He went to the seedbed of spices.
He is herding sheep in the garden,
Pick lilies.
? My lover belongs to me,
I belong to him too.
He is herding sheep among lilies.
bridegroom
My love,
You are as lovely as Tirzah,
As beautiful as Jerusalem,
As solemn as a neat army.
Take your eyes away,
Your eyes confuse me.
Your hair is like a flock of goats,
Rushed down from the Gilead Plateau;
Your teeth are like sheep,
Cleaning and cleaning, in droves,
Opposite in pairs, arranged in pairs,
No one is lonely and abandoned;
Your cheeks are hidden behind the veil,
Like a pomegranate in two.
? There are sixty queens, eighty concubines and countless young girls.
But my pigeon, my perfect man, has only one.
Is her mother's beloved only daughter.
She is called the blessing of virgins,
The queen and concubines also praised her:
10 "Like the dawn,
As bright as the moon,
As bright as the sun,
As solemn as a neat army,
who is it? "
1 1 I came to the apricot garden.
Appreciate the new green in the valley,
See if the grapes are sprouting?
Does pomegranate vomit?
12 Unconsciously,
My desire impelled me to board the boat.
The driver of my people's leader.
Ye Jing Girls Choir
Chapter VII
1 Come back, come back,
Uncle lamit!
Come back so that we can see you!
bridegroom
Why do you watch Shulamit?
Dancing between two teams?
? Daughter of the prince,
How beautiful your feet are in sandals!
Your legs are as round as jade,
It is a masterpiece of artists;
Your navel is like a round bottle,
Never lack of harmonious wine;
Your stomach is like a wheat pile surrounded by lilies;
Your breasts are like twins of antelope;
Your neck is like an ivory pagoda;
Your eyes are like a city in Heshbon.
The pond by the Batbin Gate;
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus;
Your towering head is like Mount Guermeur;
Your smooth hair is like purple satin,
It is this curly hair that fascinates the king.
My love, you are so beautiful,
How lovely and lovable you are!
You are as slender as the palm of your hand,
Your breasts are like fruit on a tree.
I said, "I want to climb a palm tree,
Pick fruit from the tree. "
May your breasts be like a bunch of grapes,
Your breath is as sweet as an apple,
10 Your mouth is like wine.
bride
? May wine flow from my lips,
Put it in my lover's mouth.
1 1 I belong to my lover,
He has a crush on me.
Come, my love,
Let's go to the wild,
Living in the country.
Let's get up early,
Walking towards the vineyard,
See if the grapes bloom,
Whether the bud blooms,
Whether pomegranate vomits.
There, I will dedicate my love to you.
14 mandala is full of fragrance;
There are exotic fruits at our door.
My love,
Whether it's fresh or old,
I left it all to you.
Chapter VIII
? I hope you are my brother,
It was fed by my mother's breasts,
So when I met you outside,
I can kiss you without being despised.
I'll take you to my mother's house,
You can teach me there.
I will give you fragrant wine,
The nectar of pomegranate.
His left hand holds my head,
His right hand hugged me.
bridegroom
Daughter of Jerusalem,
I implore you:
Before she volunteered,
Please don't inspire love.
Ye Jing Girls Choir
Snuggle up to her lover,
Who is from the wilderness?
bridegroom
I woke you up under the apple tree,
Where your mother gave birth to you,
There, the man who gave birth to you suffered from childbirth.
bride
? Please put me on your heart as a mark,
Please put me on your arm as a mark.
Because love is as fierce as death,
Jealousy is as stubborn as the power of the underworld,
It burns like a flame,
Burning like a fire.
The flood can't stop love,
The river cannot drown it.
If someone wants to buy love with all their possessions,
All he can get is contempt.
? We have a little sister,
Her breasts are immature.
The day someone proposed to her,
What should we do for her?
If she's an obstacle,
We will build a silver tower on it;
If she is a door fan,
We'll enclose it with cedar boards.
10 I am a barrier,
My breasts are towers.
In his eyes,
I am like a peacemaker.
1 1 In Balhamon,
Solomon had a vineyard,
He entrusted the garden to the caretaker.
Because of its fruit,
Everyone has to pay 1000 silver coins.
But I have my own vineyard,
I'll see for myself.
Solomon, a thousand silver coins are yours,
The gardener got 200 pounds.
You who live in the garden,
Your companions are all around,
Let me listen to you.
14 my love, come on,
Like antelopes and deer,
Running on vanilla hill.