Song of Songs · Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
Song of Songs 4 Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
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Notes on this text (3)
- Church Slavonic in its traditional (Synodal) spelling, with accents, breathings and titlo abbreviations, shown in the Ponomar font (SIL Open Font License).
- Exodus 36–39 follow the Septuagint's order; the digital source has no verse divisions there, so Exodus 36:8–end and chapters 37, 38 and 39 each appear as one block.
- Not shown: the lectionary pericope numbers (зача́ло) and the marginal glosses of the digital source. The Prayer of Manasseh stands at the end of 2 Chronicles (36:24), as in the Slavonic Bible; the prologue of Sirach and the opening verse of Lamentations are joined to verse 1.
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1 Сѐ, є҆сѝ добра̀, бли́жнѧѧ моѧ̀, сѐ, є҆сѝ добра̀: ѻ҆́чи твоѝ голꙋби̑нѣ, кромѣ̀ замолча́нїѧ твоегѡ̀: вла́си твоѝ ꙗ҆́кѡ стада̀ кози́цъ, ꙗ҆̀же ѿкры́шасѧ ѿ галаа́да.
1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.
2 Зꙋ́бы твоѝ ꙗ҆́кѡ стада̀ ѡ҆стриже́ныхъ, ꙗ҆̀же и҆зыдо́ша и҆з̾ кꙋпѣ́ли, всѧ̑ двоеплѡ́дны, и҆ неродѧ́щїѧ нѣ́сть въ ни́хъ.
2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
3 Ꙗ҆́кѡ ве́рвь червле́на ᲂу҆стнѣ̀ твоѝ, и҆ бесѣ́да твоѧ̀ красна̀: ꙗ҆́кѡ ѡ҆броще́нїе ши́пка лани̑ты твоѧ̑, кромѣ̀ замолча́нїѧ твоегѡ̀.
3 Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
4 Ꙗ҆́кѡ сто́лпъ даві́довъ вы́ѧ твоѧ̀, со́зданъ въ ѳалпїѡ́ѳѣ: ты́сѧща щитѡ́въ ви́ситъ на не́мъ, всѧ̑ стрѣ́лы си́льныхъ.
4 Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.
5 Два̀ сосца̑ твоѧ̑ ꙗ҆́кѡ два̀ мла́да близнца̑ се́рны, пасѡ́маѧ во крі́нахъ,
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
6 до́ндеже дхне́тъ де́нь, и҆ подви́гнꙋтсѧ сѣ̑ни. Пойдꙋ̀ себѣ̀ къ горѣ̀ смѵ́рнѣй и҆ къ хо́лмꙋ лїва́нскꙋ.
6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.
7 Всѧ̀ добра̀ є҆сѝ, бли́жнѧѧ моѧ̀, и҆ поро́ка нѣ́сть въ тебѣ̀.
7 You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
8 Грѧдѝ ѿ лїва́на, невѣ́сто, грѧдѝ ѿ лїва́на: прїидѝ и҆ прейдѝ и҆з̾ нача́ла вѣ́ры, ѿ главы̀ сані́ра и҆ а҆ермѡ́на, ѿ ѡ҆гра́дъ льво́выхъ, ѿ го́ръ пардале́ѡвъ.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
9 Се́рдце на́ше привлекла̀ є҆сѝ, сестро̀ моѧ̀ невѣ́сто, се́рдце на́ше привлекла̀ є҆сѝ є҆ди́нымъ ѿ ѻ҆́чїю твоє́ю, є҆ди́нымъ мони́стомъ вы́и твоеѧ̀.
9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
10 Что̀ ᲂу҆добрѣ́ста сосца̑ твоѧ̑, сестро̀ моѧ̀ невѣ́сто; что̀ ᲂу҆добрѣ́ста сосца̑ твоѧ̑ па́че вїна̀, и҆ вонѧ̀ ри́зъ твои́хъ па́че всѣ́хъ а҆рѡма̑тъ;
10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
11 Со́тъ и҆ска́паютъ ᲂу҆стнѣ̀ твоѝ, невѣ́сто, ме́дъ и҆ млеко̀ под̾ ѧ҆зы́комъ твои́мъ, и҆ благово́нїе ри́зъ твои́хъ ꙗ҆́кѡ благоꙋха́нїе лїва́на.
11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
12 Вертогра́дъ заключе́нъ сестра̀ моѧ̀ невѣ́ста, вертогра́дъ заключе́нъ, и҆сто́чникъ запечатлѣ́нъ.
12 My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
13 Лѣ́тѡрасли твоѧ̑ са́дъ ши́пкѡвъ съ плодо́мъ ꙗ҆́блочнымъ, кѵ́при съ на́рдами,
13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,
14 на́рдъ и҆ шафра́нъ, тро́сть и҆ кїннамѡ́нъ со всѣ́ми древа́ми лїва́нскими, смѵ́рна, а҆ло́й со всѣ́ми пе́рвыми мѵ́рами,
14 spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
15 и҆сто́чникъ вертогра́да, и҆ кла́дѧзь воды̀ жи́вы и҆ и҆стека́ющїѧ ѿ лїва́на.
15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
16 Воста́ни, сѣ́вере, и҆ грѧдѝ, ю҆́же, и҆ повѣ́й во вертогра́дѣ мое́мъ, и҆ да потекꙋ́тъ а҆рѡма́ты моѝ.
16 Awake, north wind, and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Song of Songs 6:5; Song of Songs 1:15; Song of Songs 6:7; Song of Songs 2:14; Song of Songs 7:5
- 2 Song of Songs 6:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Colossians 1:4–6; 2 Peter 1:5–8; Deuteronomy 7:13–14
- 3 Song of Songs 6:7; Song of Songs 5:16; Joshua 2:18; Psalm 119:13; Proverbs 10:20–21
- 4 Song of Songs 7:4; Ephesians 4:15–16; Ezekiel 27:10–11; 1 Peter 1:5; Nehemiah 3:19
- 5 Song of Songs 7:3; Song of Songs 6:3; Song of Songs 2:16; 1 Peter 2:2; Song of Songs 8:10
- 6 Song of Songs 2:17; Song of Songs 4:14; Luke 1:78; Malachi 4:2; Isaiah 2:2
- 7 Song of Songs 1:15; Song of Songs 4:1; Ephesians 5:25–27; Jude 24; Colossians 1:22
- 8 Deuteronomy 3:9; Song of Songs 2:13; Psalm 45:10; 1 Chronicles 5:23; Isaiah 62:5
- 9 Song of Songs 5:1–2; Song of Songs 4:12; Proverbs 5:19–20; Hosea 2:19–20; 2 Corinthians 11:2
- 10 Song of Songs 1:2–4; Galatians 5:22; Song of Songs 7:6; Song of Songs 5:5; Song of Songs 1:12
- 11 Song of Songs 5:1; Hosea 14:6–7; Song of Songs 5:13; Song of Songs 7:9; Genesis 27:27
- 12 Proverbs 5:15–18; Revelation 21:27; 1 Corinthians 6:13; Isaiah 61:10–11; Revelation 7:3
- 13 Song of Songs 1:14; Ecclesiastes 2:5; Song of Songs 6:11; Song of Songs 1:12; Song of Songs 8:2
- 14 Exodus 30:23; Song of Songs 4:6; Song of Songs 3:6; Song of Songs 6:2; Proverbs 7:17
- 15 John 4:10; John 7:38; John 4:14; Jeremiah 2:13; Revelation 22:1
- 16 Song of Songs 6:2; Song of Songs 5:1; Ezekiel 37:9; Song of Songs 4:13–14; 1 Peter 2:5
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)