Song of Songs · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Song of Songs 4 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Ιδού, είσαι ώραία, αγαπητή μου· ιδού, είσαι ώραία· οι οφθαλμοί σου είναι ως περιστερών μεταξύ των πλοκάμων σου· τα μαλλία σου είναι ως ποίμνιον αιγών, καταβαινόντων από του όρους Γαλαάδ.
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 Οι οδόντες σου είναι ως ποίμνιον προβάτων κεκουρευμένων, αναβαινόντων από της λούσεως, τα οποία πάντα γεννώσι δίδυμα, και δεν υπάρχει άτεκνον μεταξύ αυτών·
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 τα χείλη σου ως ταινία ερυθρά, και η λαλιά σου εύχαρις· αι παρειαί σου ως τμήμα ροϊδίου μεταξύ των πλοκάμων σου·
3 Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
4 Ο τράχηλός σου ως ο πύργος του Δαβίδ, ο ωκοδομημένος διά οπλοθήκην, επί του οποίου κρέμανται χίλιοι θυρεοί, πάντες ασπίδες ισχυρών·
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 οι δύο μαστοί σου ως δύο σκύμνοι δορκάδος δίδυμοι, βόσκοντες μεταξύ των κρίνων.
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
6 Εωσού πνεύση η αύρα της ημέρας και φύγωσιν αι σκιαί, εγώ θέλω υπάγει εις το όρος της σμύρνης, και εις τον λόφον του θυμιάματος.
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 Όλη ώραία είσαι, αγαπητή μου· και μώμος δεν υπάρχει εν σοι.
7 You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
8 Ελθέ μετ' εμού από του Λιβάνου, νύμφη από του Λιβάνου μετ' εμού· βλέψον από της κορυφής του Αμανά, από της κορυφής του Σενείρ και του Αερμών, από των φωλεών των λεόντων, από των ορέων των παρδάλεων.
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 Έτρωσας την καρδίαν μου, αδελφή μου, νύμφη· έτρωσας την καρδίαν μου, δι' ενός των οφθαλμών σου, δι' ενός πλοκάμου του τραχήλου σου.
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 Πόσον ώραία είναι η αγάπη σου, αδελφή μου, νύμφη πόσον καλητέρα η αγάπη σου παρά τον οίνον και η οσμή των μύρων σου παρά πάντα τα αρώματα
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 Τα χείλη σου, νύμφη, στάζουσιν ως κηρήθρα· μέλι και γάλα είναι υπό την γλώσσαν σου· και η οσμή των ιματίων σου ως οσμή του Λιβάνου.
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 Κήπος κεκλεισμένος είναι η αδελφή μου, η νύμφη μου· βρύσις κεκλεισμένη, πηγή εσφραγισμένη.
12 My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
13 Οι βλαστοί σου είναι παράδεισος ροϊδίων, μετά εκλεκτών καρπών· κύπρος μετά νάρδου·
13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,
14 νάρδος και κρόκος· κάλαμος και κιννάμωμον, μετά πάντων των δένδρων του θυμιάματος· σμύρνα και αλόη, μετά πάντων των πρωτίστων αρωμάτων·
14 spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
15 πηγή κήπων, φρέαρ ύδατος ζώντος, και ρύακες από του Λιβάνου.
15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
16 Εγέρθητι, Βορρά· και έρχου, Νότε· πνεύσον εις τον κήπόν μου· διά να εκχυθώσι τα αρώματα αυτού. Ας έλθη ο αγαπητός μου εις τον κήπον αυτού, και ας φάγη τους εξαιρέτους καρπούς αυτού.
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
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“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).
… is said of the Church, when it is being praised under the figure of a beautiful woman, "Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are shorn which came up from the washing, whereof every one bears twins, and none is barren among them?" Does the hearer learn anything more than when he listens to the same thought expressed …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For though it has now been most highly adorned with royal gifts, yet formerly it was a garden, and the signs and the remnants of this remain. A garden enclosed, a fountain sealed, by the Jews who said, We remember that that deceiver said while He was yet alive, After three days, I will rise: command, therefore, that the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Of these teeth too of the Church it is said, "Thy teeth are as a flock of shorn sheep, coming up from the bath, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them." These are they who prescribe rightly, and as they prescribe, live; who do what is written, "Let your works shine before men, that …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
But who is the fountain that is sealed, or who is interpreted as being a well-spring of living water?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)