تحذير من إغواء الزانية | |
| 1 يَا ابْنِي، احْفَظْ كَلاَمِي وَاذْخَرْ وَصَايَايَ عِنْدَكَ. | 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. |
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| 2 احْفَظْ وَصَايَايَ فَتَحْيَا، وَشَرِيعَتِي كَحَدَقَةِ عَيْنِكَ. | 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. |
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| 3 اُرْبُطْهَا عَلَى أَصَابِعِكَ. اكْتُبْهَا عَلَى لَوْحِ قَلْبِكَ. | 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. |
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| 4 قُلْ لِلْحِكْمَةِ: «أَنْتِ أُخْتِي» وَادْعُ الْفَهْمَ ذَا قَرَابَةٍ. | 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: |
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| 5 لِتَحْفَظَكَ مِنَ الْمَرْأَةِ الأَجْنَبِيَّةِ، مِنَ الْغَرِيبَةِ الْمَلِقَةِ بِكَلاَمِهَا. | 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. |
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| 6 لأَنِّي مِنْ كُوَّةِ بَيْتِي، مِنْ وَرَاءِ شُبَّاكِي تَطَلَّعْتُ، | 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, |
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| 7 فَرَأَيْتُ بَيْنَ الْجُهَّالِ، لاَحَظْتُ بَيْنَ الْبَنِينَ غُلاَمًا عَدِيمَ الْفَهْمِ، | 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, |
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| 8 عَابِرًا فِي الشَّارِعِ عِنْدَ زَاوِيَتِهَا، وَصَاعِدًا فِي طَرِيقِ بَيْتِهَا. | 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, |
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| 9 فِي الْعِشَاءِ، فِي مَسَاءِ الْيَوْمِ، فِي حَدَقَةِ اللَّيْلِ وَالظَّلاَمِ. | 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: |
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| 10 وَإِذَا بِامْرَأَةٍ اسْتَقْبَلَتْهُ فِي زِيِّ زَانِيَةٍ، وَخَبِيثَةِ الْقَلْبِ. | 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. |
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| 11 صَخَّابَةٌ هِيَ وَجَامِحَةٌ. فِي بَيْتِهَا لاَ تَسْتَقِرُّ قَدَمَاهَا. | 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: |
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| 12 تَارَةً فِي الْخَارِجِ، وَأُخْرَى فِي الشَّوَارِعِ، وَعِنْدَ كُلِّ زَاوِيَةٍ تَكْمُنُ. | 12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) |
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| 13 فَأَمْسَكَتْهُ وَقَبَّلَتْهُ. أَوْقَحَتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ لَهُ: | 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, |
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| 14 «عَلَيَّ ذَبَائِحُ السَّلاَمَةِ. الْيَوْمَ أَوْفَيْتُ نُذُورِي. | 14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. |
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| 15 فَلِذلِكَ خَرَجْتُ لِلِقَائِكَ، لأَطْلُبَ وَجْهَكَ حَتَّى أَجِدَكَ. | 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. |
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16 بِالدِّيبَاجِ فَرَشْتُ سَرِيرِي، بِمُوَشَّى كَتَّانٍ مِنْ مِصْرَ.  | 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. |
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| 17 عَطَّرْتُ فِرَاشِي بِمُرّ وَعُودٍ وَقِرْفَةٍ. | 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
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| 18 هَلُمَّ نَرْتَوِ وُدًّا إِلَى الصَّبَاحِ. نَتَلَذَّذُ بِالْحُبِّ. | 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. |
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| 19 لأَنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيْسَ فِي الْبَيْتِ. ذَهَبَ فِي طَرِيق بَعِيدَةٍ. | 19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: |
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| 20 أَخَذَ صُرَّةَ الْفِضَّةِ بِيَدِهِ. يَوْمَ الْهِلاَلِ يَأْتِي إِلَى بَيْتِهِ». | 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. |
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| 21 أَغْوَتْهُ بِكَثْرَةِ فُنُونِهَا، بِمَلْثِ شَفَتَيْهَا طَوَّحَتْهُ. | 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. |
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| 22 ذَهَبَ وَرَاءَهَا لِوَقْتِهِ، كَثَوْرٍ يَذْهَبُ إِلَى الذَّبْحِ، أَوْ كَالْغَبِيِّ إِلَى قَيْدِ الْقِصَاصِ، | 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; |
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| 23 حَتَّى يَشُقَّ سَهْمٌ كَبِدَهُ. كَطَيْرٍ يُسْرِعُ إِلَى الْفَخِّ وَلاَ يَدْرِي أَنَّهُ لِنَفْسِهِ. | 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. |
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| 24 وَالآنَ أَيُّهَا الأَبْنَاءُ اسْمَعُوا لِي وَأَصْغُوا لِكَلِمَاتِ فَمِي: | 24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. |
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| 25 لاَ يَمِلْ قَلْبُكَ إِلَى طُرُقِهَا، وَلاَ تَشْرُدْ فِي مَسَالِكِهَا. | 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. |
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| 26 لأَنَّهَا طَرَحَتْ كَثِيرِينَ جَرْحَى، وَكُلُّ قَتْلاَهَا أَقْوِيَاءُ. | 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. |
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| 27 طُرُقُ الْهَاوِيَةِ بَيْتُهَا، هَابِطَةٌ إِلَى خُدُورِ الْمَوْتِ. | 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. |
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