Canticum Canticorum 6
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1[ Sponsa Dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum ad areolam aromatum, ut pascatur in hortis, et lilia colligat.
1My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
2Ego dilecto meo, et dilectus meus mihi, qui pascitur inter lilia.
2I to my beloved, and my beloved to me, who feedeth among the lilies.
3Sponsus Pulchra es, amica mea; suavis, et decora sicut Jerusalem; terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata.
3Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem: terrible as an army set in array.
4Averte oculos tuos a me, quia ipsi me avolare fecerunt. Capilli tui sicut grex caprarum quæ apparuerunt de Galaad.
4Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have made me flee away. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Galaad.
5Dentes tui sicut grex ovium quæ ascenderunt de lavacro: omnes gemellis fœtibus, et sterilis non est in eis.
5Thy teeth as a flock of sheep, which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them.
6Sicut cortex mali punici, sic genæ tuæ, absque occultis tuis.
6Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden within thee.
7Sexaginta sunt reginæ, et octoginta concubinæ, et adolescentularum non est numerus.
7There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.
8Una est columba mea, perfecta mea, una est matris suæ, electa genetrici suæ. Viderunt eam filiæ, et beatissimam prædicaverunt; reginæ et concubinæ, et laudaverunt eam.
8One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her.
9Quæ est ista quæ progreditur quasi aurora consurgens, pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata?
9Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?
10Sponsa Descendi in hortum nucum, ut viderem poma convallium, et inspicerem si floruisset vinea, et germinassent mala punica.
10I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valleys, and to look if the vineyard had flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
11Nescivi: anima mea conturbavit me, propter quadrigas Aminadab.
11I knew not: my soul troubled me for the chariots of Aminadab.
12Chorus Revertere, revertere, Sulamitis ! revertere, revertere ut intueamur te.]
12Return, return, O Sulamitess: return, return that we may behold thee.
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