Song of Songs · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Song of Songs 7 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
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 skillful workman.
1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
2 Thy navel is like a round bowl never wanting cups. Thy belly is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
2 Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.
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.
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
5 Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.
5 Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
6 How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights!
6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!
7 Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.
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.
8 I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples.
9 Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth to ruminate.
9 Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
10 I to my beloved, and his turning is towards me.
10 I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us abide in the villages.
11 Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field. Let’s lodge in the villages.
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.
12 Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee.
13 The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 45:13; Colossians 2:19; Daniel 2:32; Ephesians 6:15; Exodus 28:15
- 2 Romans 7:4; Jeremiah 1:5; Psalm 45:16; Proverbs 3:8; Song of Songs 5:14
- 3 Song of Songs 4:5; Song of Songs 6:6
- 4 Song of Songs 4:4; Song of Songs 4:8–9; Psalm 144:12; 1 Kings 22:39; 1 Kings 9:19
- 5 Isaiah 35:2; Song of Songs 4:1; Psalm 68:24; Genesis 32:26; Song of Songs 5:11
- 6 Song of Songs 4:10; Song of Songs 1:15–16; Psalm 45:11; Song of Songs 2:14; Isaiah 62:4–5
- 7 Song of Songs 4:5; Ephesians 4:13; Isaiah 66:10; Ephesians 3:17; Psalm 92:12
- 8 2 Corinthians 2:14; John 14:21–23; Song of Songs 4:16–5:1; Song of Songs 2:3; Song of Songs 1:3
- 9 Song of Songs 5:16; Isaiah 62:8–9; Zechariah 9:15–17; Acts 16:30–34; Hebrews 13:15
- 10 Psalm 45:11; Song of Songs 6:3; Song of Songs 2:16; Galatians 2:20; John 17:24
- 11 Song of Songs 4:8; Song of Songs 2:10–13; Song of Songs 1:4
- 12 Song of Songs 6:11; Ephesians 6:24; Song of Songs 7:6; 1 Thessalonians 3:5–6; 2 Corinthians 13:5
- 13 Genesis 30:14; Matthew 13:52; 1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 8:8–9; Romans 15:25–27
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