Cantico 7

NOVA VULGATA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Convertere, convertere, Sula mitis; convertere, convertere, ut intueamur te. Quid aspicitis in Sulamitem, cum saltat inter binos choros?	1 What shalt thou see in the Sulamitess but the companies of camps? How beautiful are thy steps in shoes, O prince's daughter! The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, that are made by the hand of a skilful workman.
2 Quam pulchri sunt pedes tui in calceamentis, filia principis! Flexurae femorum tuorum sicut monilia, quae fabricata sunt manu artificis.	2 Thy navel is like a round bowl never wanting cups. Thy belly is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
3 Gremium tuum crater tornatilis: numquam indigeat vino mixto; venter tuus sicut acervus tritici vallatus liliis.	3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
4 Duo ubera tua sicut duo hinnuli, gemelli capreae,	4 Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in Hesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus.
5 collum tuum sicut turris eburnea. Oculi tui sicut piscinae in Hesebon, quae sunt ad portam Bathrabbim; nasus tuus sicut turris Libani, quae respicit contra Damascum.	5 Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.
6 Caput tuum ut Carmelus, et comae capitis tui sicut purpura; rex vincitur cincinnis.	6 How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights!
7 Quam pulchra es et quam decora, carissima, in deliciis!	7 Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
8 Statura tua assimilata est palmae, et ubera tua botris.	8 I said: I will go up into the palm tree, and will take hold of the fruit thereof: and thy breasts shall be as the clusters of the vine: and the odour of thy mouth like apples.
9 Dixi: “ Ascendam in palmam et apprehendam fructus eius ”. Et erunt ubera tua sicut botri vineae, et odor oris tui sicut malorum.	9 Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth to ruminate.
10 Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum, dignum dilecto meo ad potandum, labiisque et dentibus illius ad ruminandum.	10 I to my beloved, and his turning is towards me.
11 Ego dilecto meo, et ad me appetitus eius.	11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us abide in the villages.
12 Veni, dilecte mi, egrediamur in agrum, commoremur in villis;	12 Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vineyard flourish, if the flowers be ready to bring forth fruits, if the pomegranates flourish: there will I give thee my breasts.
13 mane properabimus ad vineas, videbimus; si floruit vinea, si flores aperiuntur, si floruerunt mala punica; ibi dabo tibi amores meos.	13 The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee.
14 Mandragorae dederunt odorem; in portis nostris omnia poma optima, nova et vetera, dilecte mi, servavi tibi.