Cânticos 7

1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter!

Your rounded thighs are like jewels,

the work of the hands of a skillful workman.

2 Your body is like a round goblet,

no mixed wine is wanting.

Your waist is like a heap of wheat,

set about with lilies.

3 Your two breasts are like two fawns,

that are twins of a roe.

4 Your neck is like an ivory tower.

Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim.

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

5 Your head on you is like Carmel.

The hair of your head like purple.

The king is held captive in its tresses.

6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are,

love, for delights!

7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree,

your breasts like its fruit.

8 I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree.

I will take hold of its fruit."

Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,

the smell of your breath like apples.

9 Your mouth is like the best wine,

that goes down smoothly for my beloved,

gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.

Beloved

10 I am my beloved’s.

His desire is toward me.

11 Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field.

Let’s lodge in the villages.

12 Let’s go early up to the vineyards.

Let’s see whether the vine has budded,

its blossom is open,

and the pomegranates are in flower.

There I will give you my love.

13 The mandrakes produce fragrance.

At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old,

which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

He Whakapuaki Whakanui

Te Tāne

1 Anō te ātaahua o ōu waewae i roto i ōu hū,

e te tamāhine a te rangatira!

Ko ngā hononga o ōu hūhā, koia anō kei o ngā peara,

he mea hanga nā ngā ringa o te kaimahi mōhio.

2 Ko tōu pito, koia anō kei te oko porotaka,

kīhai i hapa i te wāina whakaranu;

ko tōu kōpū, ānō he pūranga wīti

kua oti te karapoti ki ngā rengarenga.

3 Nō ōu ū e rua, ānō ko ngā kūao e rua,

he māhanga nā te anaterope.

4 Ko tōu kakī ānō he pourewa rei.

Ko ōu kanohi, ānō ko ngā roto wai i Hehepona,

i te Kūwaha o Peterapimi.

Ko tōu ihu, ānō ko te Pourewa o Repanōna,

e titiro atu nei ki Ramahiku.

5 Ko tōu māhunga, i runga i a koe rite tonu ki Karamere,

ā, ko te makawe o tōu māhunga, ki te pāpura;

e mau herehere ana te kīngi i roto i ōna uru.

6 Anō te ātaahua, anō te pai ōu,

e te mea e arohaina ana, āhuareka tonu!

7 Rite tonu koe ki te nīkau i a koe e tū nei,

ā, ko ōu ū ki ngā tautau karepe.

8 I mea ahau, "Ka pikitia e ahau te nīkau,

ka hopukia atu e ahau ōna manga."

Kia rite ōu ū ki ngā tautau o te wāina,

te kakara o tōu hā ki te āporo;

9 ā, ko tōu māngai kia rite ki te wāina tino pai

e mania nei tāna heke mā tāku e aroha nei,

e rere ana nā ngā ngutu o te hunga e moe ana.

Te Wahine

10 Kei tāku e aroha nei ahau;

ko ahau anō tāna e hiahia ai.

11 Haere mai, e tāku e aroha nei,

tāua ka haere ki te pārae,

ka moe tāua ki ngā pā ririki.

12 Kia moata tō tāua maranga ki ngā māra wāina;

kia kite ai, e tupu ana rānei te wāina,

kua puta rānei te karepe hou,

e kōpuku ana rānei ngā pamekaranete.

Ko reira hoatu ai e ahau tōku aroha ki a koe.

13 Kei te patu te kakara o ngā manitareki,

kei ō tāua kūwaha anō ngā momo hua papai katoa,

ngā mea hou, ngā mea tawhito,

he mea rongoā nāku māu, e tāku e aroha nei.