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Venerdi, 3 maggio 2024 - Santi Filippo e Giacomo ( Letture di oggi)

Canticle of Canticles 7


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NEW AMERICAN BIBLEKING JAMES BIBLE
1 Turn, turn, O Shulammite,1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
3 Your navel is a round bowl3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
4 Your breasts are like twin fawns,4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
5 Your neck is like a tower of ivory.5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
6 You head rises like Carmel;6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
7 How beautiful you are, how pleasing,7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
8 Your very figure is like a palm tree,8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
9 I said: I will climb the palm tree,9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
10 And your mouth like an excellent wine-10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
11 I belong to my lover11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
12 Come, my lover, let us go forth to the fields12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
13 Let us go early to the vineyards, and see13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
14 The mandrakes give forth fragrance,