Canticle of Canticles 8

NEW JERUSALEM	VULGATA
1 Ah, why are you not my brother, nursed at my mother's breast! Then if I met you out of doors, I couldkiss you without people thinking il of me.	1 Quis mihi det te fratrem meum, sugentem ubera matris meæ, ut inveniam te foris, et deosculer te, et jam me nemo despiciat ?
2 I should lead you, I should take you into my mother's house, and you would teach me! I should give youspiced wine to drink, juice of my pomegranates.	2 Apprehendam te, et ducam in domum matris meæ : ibi me docebis, et dabo tibi poculum ex vino condito, et mustum malorum granatorum meorum.
3 His left arm is under my head and his right embraces me.	3 Læva ejus sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexabitur me.
4 LOVER: I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, do not rouse, do not wake my beloved, before shepleases!	4 (Sponsus)Adjuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem, ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, donec ipsa velit.
5 Who is this coming up from the desert leaning on her lover? I awakened you under the apple tree, whereyour mother conceived you, where she who bore you conceived you.	5 (Chorus)Quæ est ista quæ 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 BELOVED: Set me like a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is strong as Death,passion as relentless as Sheol. The flash of it is a flash of fire, a flame of Yahweh himself.	6 (Sponsa)Pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum, ut signaculum super brachium tuum, quia fortis est ut mors dilectio, dura sicut infernus æmulatio : lampades ejus lampades ignis atque flammarum.
7 Love no flood can quench, no torrents drown. Were a man to offer all his family wealth to buy love,contempt is al that he would gain.	7 Aquæ multæ non potuerunt extinguere caritatem, nec flumina obruent illam. Si dederit homo omnem substantiam domus suæ pro dilectione, quasi nihil despiciet eam.
8 Our sister is little: her breasts are not yet formed. What shal we do for our sister on the day she isspoken for?	8 (Chorus Fratrum)Soror nostra parva, et ubera non habet ; quid faciemus sorori nostræ in die quando alloquenda est ?
9 If she is a rampart, on the crest we shal build a battlement of silver; if she is a door, we shal board herup with planks of cedar.	9 Si murus est, ædificemus super eum propugnacula argentea ; si ostium est, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis.
10 I am a wal , and my breasts represent its towers. And under their eyes I have found true peace.	10 (Sponsa)Ego murus, et ubera mea sicut turris, ex quo facta sum coram eo, quasi pacem reperiens.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-Hamon. He entrusted it to overseers, and each one was to pay himthe value of its produce, a thousand shekels of silver.	11 (Chorus Fratrum)Vinea fuit pacifico in ea quæ habet populos : tradidit eam custodibus ; vir affert pro fructu ejus mille argenteos.
12 But I tend my own vineyard myself. You, Solomon, may have your thousand shekels, and those whooversee its produce their two hundred.	12 (Sponsa)Vinea mea coram me est. Mille tui pacifici, et ducenti his qui custodiunt fructus ejus.
13 You who dwel in the gardens, my companions listen for your voice; let me hear it.	13 (Sponsus)Quæ habitas in hortis, amici auscultant ; fac me audire vocem tuam.
14 Haste away, my love, be like a gazel e, a young stag, on the spice-laden mountains.	14 (Sponsa)Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreæ, hinnuloque cervorum super montes aromatum.