1 My ban (son), shamar (keep/guard) my amar (said). Tzapan (lay) up my matzawah (commandments) within you.
2 Shamar (keep/guard) my matzawah (commandments) and chayah (live)! Guard my teaching as the ayashawan (apple) of your iyan (eye).
3 Qashar (bind) them on your atzabai (fingers). Kathab (write) them on the tablet of your lab (heart).
4 Amar (said) chakamah (wisdom), “You are my achawath (sister).” Qaraa (called) chakamah (understanding) your relative,
5 That they may shamar (keep/guard) you from the zawar (strange) ayashah (woman / wife), from the nakaray (foreigner) who chalaq (flatters) with her amar (said).
6 For at the chalawan (window) of my bayath (house), I shaqap (looked) out through my ashanab (lattice).
7 I raah (see / saw) among the pathay (simple) ones. I bayan (between) among the banayam (youths) a nair (young) man chasar (void) of lab (heart),
8 Ibar (pass over/through) through the shawaq (street) atzal (near) her panah (turn), he tzaid (went) the darak (way) to her bayath (house),
9 In the nashap (twilight), in the yawam (day) of the ayashawan (day), in the middle of the layal (night) and in the apalah (darkness).
10 Behold, there a ayashah (woman / wife) qaraah (met) him with the shayath (attire) of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
11 She is hamah (great uproar) and defiant. Her ragal (feet / foot) don't stay in her bayath (house).
12 Paim (now) she is in the rachabawath (streets), paim (now) in the squares, and lurking at every panah (turn).
13 So she chazaq (caught) him, and nashaq (kissed) him. With an izaz (impudent) panayam (face) she amar (said) to him:
14 “Sacrifices of shalam (peace) zabachay (offerings) are with me. This yawam (day) I have shalam (paid) my nadar (vow).
15 Therefore I yatzaa (go out / come out) out to qaraah (meet) you, to shachar (diligently) seek your panayam (face), and I matzaa (have) found you.
16 I have spread my irash (couch) with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Matzarayam (Matzarayam / Egypt).
17 I have nawap (perfumed) my mashakab (bed) with mar (myrrh), ahalayam (aloes), and qanamawan (cinnamon).
18 Yalak (come), let's take our rawah (fill) of dawad (loving) until the baqar (morning). Let's ilas (solace) ourselves with ahab (love).
19 For my ayash (man / husband) isn't at bayath (house). He has halak (move) on a rachawaq (long) darak (journey).
20 He has laqach (take / seize) a tzarawar (bag) of kasap (money) with him. He will bawaa (bring) bayath (house) at the yawam (day) kasaa (moon).”
21 With persuasive laqach (words), she led him astray. With the flattering of her shapah (lips), she seduced him.
22 He halak (move) her immediately, as an shawar (ox) bawaa (bring) to the tabach (slaughter), as a awayal (fool) stepping into a noose.
23 Until an chatz (arrow) palach (strikes) through his kabad (liver), as a tzapawar (bird) hurries to the pach (snare / trap), and doesn't yadai (know) that it will cost his napash (soul).
24 Now therefore, banayam (sons), shamai (hearken / hear) to me. Pay attention to the amaray (Amaray / Amorite) of my pah (mouth).
25 Don't let your lab (heart) shatah (turn) to her darak (ways). Don't thaih (go) astray in her nathayab (paths),
26 For she napal (fall / be cast down) thrown down many chalal (wounded). Yes, all her harag (kill) are a itzawam (mighty) army.
27 Her bayath (house) is the darak (way) to shaawal (Sheol / afterlife), yarad (going) down to the rooms of mawath (death).