女子阿,你要听,要想,要侧耳而听。不要记念你的民,和你的父家。
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
推罗的民,(民原文作女子),必来送礼。民中富足人,也必向你求恩。
And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
因你的判断,锡安山应当欢喜,犹大的城邑,应当快乐。(城邑原文作女子)
Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
丑恶的女子出嫁。婢女接续主母。
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
说,才德的女子很多,惟独你超过一切。
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
传道者说,看哪,一千男子中,我找到一个正直人。但众女子中,没有找到一个。我将这事一一比较,要寻求其理,我心仍要寻梢,却未曾找到。
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
街门关闭,推磨的响声微小,雀鸟一叫,人就起来,唱歌的女子,也都衰微,
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
耶路撒冷的众女子阿,我虽然黑,却是秀美,如同基达的帐棚,好像所罗门的幔子。
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
耶路撒冷的众女子阿,我指着羚羊或田野的母鹿,嘱咐你们,不要惊动,不要叫醒我所亲爱的,等他自己情愿(不要叫醒云云或作不要激动爱情等它自发)。
I 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.
锡安的众女子阿,你们出去观看所罗门王,头戴冠冕,是在他婚筵的日子,心中喜乐的时候,他母亲给他戴上的。
Go 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.