Canticum Canticorum

Canticorum, chapter 5, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 5 Vulgate

   1 Veniat dilectus meus in hortum suum et comedat fructus eius optimos. Veni in hortum meum, soror mea, sponsa; messui myrrham meam cum aromatibus meis, comedi favum cum melle, bibi vinum cum lacte meo. Comedite, amici, et bibite et inebriamini, carissimi.
   2 Ego dormio, et cor meum vigilat. Vox dilecti mei pulsantis: "Aperi mihi, soror mea, amica mea, columba mea, immaculata mea, quia caput meum plenum est rore, et cincinni mei guttis noctium".
   3 "Exspoliavi me tunica mea, quomodo induar illa? Lavi pedes meos, quomodo inquinabo illos?".
   4 Dilectus meus misit manum suam per foramen, et venter meus ilico intremuit.
   5 Surrexi, ut aperirem dilecto meo; manus meae stillaverunt myrrham, et digiti mei pleni myrrha probatissima super ansam pessuli.
   6 Aperui dilecto meo; at ille declinaverat atque transierat. Anima mea liquefacta est, quia discesserat. Quaesivi et non inveni illum; vocavi, et non respondit mihi.
   7 Invenerunt me custodes, qui circumeunt civitatem; percusserunt me et vulneraverunt me, tulerunt pallium meum mihi custodes murorum.
   8 Adiuro vos, filiae Ierusalem: si inveneritis dilectum meum, quid nuntietis ei?" Quia amore langueo".
   9 Quid est dilecto tuo prae ceteris, o pulcherrima mulierum? Quid est dilecto tuo prae ceteris, quia sic adiurasti nos?
   10 Dilectus meus candidus et rubicundus dignoscitur ex milibus.
   11 Caput eius aurum optimum, cincinni eius sicut racemi palmarum, nigri quasi corvus.
   12 Oculi eius sicut columbae super rivulos aquarum, quae lacte sunt lotae et resident iuxta fluenta plenissima.
   13 Genae illius sicut areolae aromatum, turriculae unguentorum; labia eius lilia distillantia myrrham primam.
   14 Manus illius tornatiles aureae, plenae hyacinthis; venter eius opus eburneum distinctum sapphiris.
   15 Crura illius columnae marmoreae, quae fundatae sunt super bases aureas; species eius ut Libani, electus ut cedri.
   16 Guttur illius suavissimum, et totus desiderabilis. Talis est dilectus meus, et ipse est amicus meus, filiae Ierusalem.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
   2 ¶ I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
   3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
   4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
   5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
   6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
   7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
   8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
   9 ¶ What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
   10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
   11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
   12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
   13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
   14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
   15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
   16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.