Wimbo 3:4
Song of Songs 3:4 · Biblica® Open Kiswahili Contemporary Version 2015
Kitambo 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.
Song of Songs 3:4 in English
Song of Songs 3:4 · Berean Standard Bible
I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
Context
2Sasa nitaondoka na kuzunguka mjini,
katika barabara zake na viwanja;
nitamtafuta yule moyo wangu umpendaye.
Kwa hiyo nilimtafuta lakini sikumpata. 3Walinzi walinikuta
walipokuwa wakizunguka mji.
Nikawauliza, “Je, mmemwona
yule moyo wangu umpendaye?” 4Kitambo 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. 5Binti za Yerusalemu, ninawaagiza
kwa paa na kwa ayala wa shambani:
Msichochee wala kuamsha mapenzi
hata yatakapotaka yenyewe. 6Ni nani huyu anayekuja kutoka jangwani
kama nguzo ya moshi,
anayenukia manemane na uvumba
iliyotengenezwa kwa vikolezo vyote
vya mfanyabiashara?
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