Canticle of Canticles 8

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Bride to Groom: "Who will give you to me as my brother, feeding from the breasts of my mother, so that I may discover you outside, and may kiss you, and so that now no one may despise me?"	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?
2 "I will take hold of you and lead you into my mother’s house. There you will teach me, and I will give you a cup of spiced wine, and of new wine from my pomegranates."	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.
3 "His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me."	3 His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
4 Groom to Chorus: "I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills."	4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.
5 Chorus to Groom: "Who is she, who ascends from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved?"	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.
6 Groom to Bride: "Under the apple tree, I awakened you. There your mother was corrupted. There she who bore you was violated."	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.
7 "Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm. For love is strong, like death, and envy is enduring, like hell: their lamps are made of fire and flames."	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.
8 "A multitude of waters cannot extinguish love, nor can a river overwhelm it. If a man were to give all the substance of his house in exchange for love, he would despise it as nothing."	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?
9 Chorus: "Our sister is little and has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is called upon?"	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.
10 "If she is a wall, let us build a rampart of silver upon it. If she is a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar."	10 I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.
11 Bride to Chorus: "I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers, since, in his presence, I have become like one who has discovered peace."	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.
12 "The peaceful one had a vineyard, in that which held the peoples. He handed it on to the caretakers; a man brought, in exchange for its fruit, a thousand pieces of silver."	12 My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof.
13 Groom: "My vineyard is before me. The thousand is for your peacefulness, and two hundred is for those who care for its fruit."	13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me hear thy voice.
14 "Flee away, my beloved, and become like the doe and the young stag upon the mountains of aromatic plants."	14 Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.