The Latin Vulgate VUL
New Revised Standard NRS
1 quis mihi det te fratrem meum sugentem ubera matris meae ut inveniam te foris et deosculer et iam me nemo despiciat
1
O that you were like a brother to me, who nursed at my mother's breast! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
2 adprehendam te et ducam in domum matris meae ibi me docebis et dabo tibi poculum ex vino condito et mustum malorum granatorum meorum
2
I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of the one who bore me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates.
3 leva eius sub capite meo et dextera illius amplexabitur me
3
O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!
4 adiuro vos filiae Hierusalem ne suscitetis et evigilare faciatis dilectam donec ipsa velit
4
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready!
5 quae est ista quae ascendit de deserto deliciis affluens et nixa super dilectum suum sub arbore malo suscitavi te ibi corrupta est mater tua ibi violata est genetrix tua
5
Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor.
6 pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum ut signaculum super brachium tuum quia fortis est ut mors dilectio dura sicut inferus aemulatio lampades eius lampades ignis atque flammarum
6
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame.
7 aquae multae non poterunt extinguere caritatem nec flumina obruent illam si dederit homo omnem substantiam domus suae pro dilectione quasi nihil despicient eum
7
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If one offered for love all the wealth of one's house, it would be utterly scorned.
8 soror nostra parva et ubera non habet quid faciemus sorori nostrae in die quando adloquenda est
8
We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister, on the day when she is spoken for?
9 si murus est aedificemus super eum propugnacula argentea si ostium est conpingamus illud tabulis cedrinis
9
If she is a wall, we will build upon her a battlement of silver; but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
10 ego murus et ubera mea sicut turris ex quo facta sum coram eo quasi pacem repperiens
10
I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who brings peace.
11 vinea fuit Pacifico in ea quae habet populos tradidit eam custodibus vir adfert pro fructu eius mille argenteos
11
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he entrusted the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
12 vinea mea coram me est mille tui Pacifice et ducenti his qui custodiunt fructus eius
12
My vineyard, my very own, is for myself; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred!
13 quae habitas in hortis amici auscultant fac me audire vocem tuam
13
O you who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice; let me hear it.
14 fuge dilecte mi et adsimilare capreae hinuloque cervorum super montes aromatum
14
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices!
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