Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Revised Standard NRS
1 What shalt thou see in the Sulamitess but the companies of camps? How beautiful are thy steps in shoes, O prince’s daughter! The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, that are made by the hand of a skilful workman.
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How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
2 Thy navel is like a round bowl never wanting cups. Thy belly is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
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Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
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Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in Hesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus.
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Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.
5 Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.
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Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights!
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How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!
7 Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
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You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I said: I will go up into the palm tree, and will take hold of the fruit thereof: and thy breasts shall be as the clusters of the vine: and the odour of thy mouth like apples.
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I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. O may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth to ruminate.
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and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.
10 I to my beloved, and his turning is towards me.
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I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us abide in the villages.
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Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vineyard flourish, if the flowers be ready to bring forth fruits, if the pomegranates flourish: there will I give thee my breasts.
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let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee.
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The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
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