Comparison
Song of Songs 5
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved. | Veniat dilectus meus in hortum suum, et comedat fructum pomorum suorum. Sponsus Veni in hortum meum, soror mea, sponsa; messui myrrham meam cum aromatibus meis; comedi favum cum melle meo; bibi vinum meum cum lacte meo; comedite, amici, et bibite, et inebriamini, carissimi. |
| 2 | I sleep, and my heart watcheth; the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights. | Sponsa Ego dormio, et cor meum vigilat. Vox dilecti mei pulsantis: Sponsus Aperi mihi, soror mea, amica mea, columba mea, immaculata mea, quia caput meum plenum est rore, et cincinni mei guttis noctium. |
| 3 | I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them? | Sponsa Expoliavi me tunica mea: quomodo induar illa? lavi pedes meos: quomodo inquinabo illos? |
| 4 | My beloved put his hand through the key hole, and my bowels were moved at his touch. | Dilectus meus misit manum suam per foramen, et venter meus intremuit ad tactum eius. |
| 5 | I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh. | Surrexi ut aperirem dilecto meo; manus meae stillaverunt myrrham, et digiti mei pleni myrrha probatissima. |
| 6 | I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved: but he had turned aside, and was gone. My soul melted when he spoke: I sought him, and found him not: I called, and he did not answer me. | Pessulum ostii mei aperui dilecto meo, at ille declinaverat, atque transierat. Anima mea liquefacta est, ut locutus est; quaesivi, et non inveni illum; vocavi, et non respondit mihi. |
| 7 | The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. | Invenerunt me custodes qui circumeunt civitatem; percusserunt me, et vulneraverunt me. Tulerunt pallium meum mihi custodes murorum. |
| 8 | I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love. | Adiuro vos, filiae Ierusalem, si inveneritis dilectum meum, ut nuntietis ei quia amore langueo. |
| 9 | What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, O thou most beautiful among women? what manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, that thou hast so adjured us? | Chorus Qualis est dilectus tuus ex dilecto, o pulcherrima mulierum? qualis est dilectus tuus ex dilecto, quia sic adiurasti nos? |
| 10 | My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands. | Sponsa Dilectus meus candidus et rubicundus; electus ex millibus. |
| 11 | His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven. | Caput eius aurum optimum; comae eius sicut elatae palmarum, nigrae quasi corvus. |
| 12 | His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams. | Oculi eius sicut columbae super rivulos aquarum, quae lacte sunt lotae, et resident iuxta fluenta plenissima. |
| 13 | His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh. | Genae illius sicut areolae aromatum, consitae a pigmentariis. Labia eius lilia, distillantia myrrham primam. |
| 14 | His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory, set with sapphires. | Manus illius tornatiles, aureae, plenae hyacinthis. Venter eius eburneus, distinctus sapphiris. |
| 15 | His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold. His form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars. | Crura illius columnae marmoreae quae fundatae sunt super bases aureas. Species eius ut Libani, electus ut cedri. |
| 16 | His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem. | Guttur illius suavissimum, et totus desiderabilis. Talis est dilectus meus, et ipse est amicus meus, filiae Ierusalem. |
| 17 | Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou most beautiful among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside, and we will seek him with thee? | Chorus Quo abiit dilectus tuus, o pulcherrima mulierum? quo declinavit dilectus tuus? et quaeremus eum tecum. |
