Comparison
Song of Songs 8
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me? | Quis mihi det te fratrem meum, sugentem ubera matris meae, ut inveniam te foris, et deosculer te, et iam me nemo despiciat? |
| 2 | I will take hold of thee, and bring thee Into my mother’s house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates. | Apprehendam te, et ducam in domum matris meae: ibi me docebis, et dabo tibi poculum ex vino condito, et mustum malorum granatorum meorum. |
| 3 | His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me. | Laeva eius sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexabitur me. |
| 4 | I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please. | Sponsus Adiuro vos, filiae Ierusalem, ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, donec ipsa velit. |
| 5 | Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee. | Chorus Quae est ista quae ascendit de deserto, deliciis affluens, innixa super dilectum suum? Sponsus Sub arbore malo suscitavi te; ibi corrupta est mater tua, ibi violata est genitrix tua. |
| 6 | Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames. | Sponsa Pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum, ut signaculum super brachium tuum, quia fortis est ut mors dilectio, dura sicut infernus aemulatio: lampades eius lampades ignis atque flammarum. |
| 7 | Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing. | Aquae multae non potuerunt extinguere caritatem, nec flumina obruent illam. Si dederit homo omnem substantiam domus suae pro dilectione, quasi nihil despiciet eam. |
| 8 | Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to? | Chorus Fratrum Soror nostra parva, et ubera non habet; quid faciemus sorori nostrae in die quando alloquenda est? |
| 9 | If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards or cedar. | Si murus est, aedificemus super eum propugnacula argentea; si ostium est, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis. |
| 10 | I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace. | Sponsa Ego murus, et ubera mea sicut turris, ex quo facta sum coram eo, quasi pacem reperiens. |
| 11 | The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver. | Chorus Fratrum Vinea fuit pacifico in ea quae habet populos: tradidit eam custodibus; vir affert pro fructu eius mille argenteos. |
| 12 | My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof. | Sponsa Vinea mea coram me est. Mille tui pacifici, et ducenti his qui custodiunt fructus eius. |
| 13 | Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me hear thy voice. | Sponsus Quae habitas in hortis, amici auscultant; fac me audire vocem tuam. |
| 14 | Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices. | Sponsa Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreae, hinnuloque cervorum super montes aromatum. |
