Song of Songs · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Song of Songs 5 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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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 Ήλθον εις τον κήπόν μου, αδελφή μου, νύμφη· ετρύγησα την σμύρναν μου μετά των αρωμάτων μου· έφαγον την κηρήθραν μου μετά του μέλιτός μου· έπιον τον οίνον μου μετά του γάλακτός μου· Φάγετε, φίλοι· πίετε, ναι, πίετε αφθόνως, αγαπητοί.
1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.
2 Εγώ κοιμώμαι, αλλ' η καρδία μου αγρυπνεί· φωνή του αγαπητού μου· κρούει· Ανοιξόν μοι, αδελφή μου, αγαπητή μου, περιστερά μου, αμώμητέ μου· διότι η κεφαλή μου εγέμισεν από δρόσου, οι βόστρυχοί μου από ψεκάδων της νυκτός.
2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
3 Εξεδύθην τον χιτώνα μου· πως να ενδυθώ αυτόν; ένιψα τους πόδας μου· πως θέλω μολύνει αυτούς;
3 I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
4 Ο αγαπητός μου εισήξε την χείρα αυτού διά της τρύπης της θύρας, και τα σπλάγχνα μου εταράχθησαν δι' αυτόν.
4 My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.
5 Εγώ εσηκώθην διά να ανοίξω εις τον αγαπητόν μου· και αι χείρές μου έσταζον σμύρναν, και οι δάκτυλοί μου σμύρναν σταλακτήν, επί τας λαβάς του μοχλού.
5 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
6 Εγώ ήνοιξα εις τον αγαπητόν μου· αλλ' ο αγαπητός μου εσύρθη, έφυγεν· η ψυχή μου ελιποθύμησεν εις τον λόγον αυτού· εζήτησα αυτόν και δεν εύρηκα αυτόν, εφώνησα αυτόν και δεν μοι απεκρίθη.
6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.
7 Με εύρηκαν οι φύλακες οι περιερχόμενοι την πόλιν, με εκτύπησαν, με επλήγωσαν· οι φύλακες των τειχών αφήρεσαν απ' εμού το ιμάτιόν μου.
7 The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
8 Σας ορκίζω, θυγατέρες Ιερουσαλήμ, εάν εύρητε τον αγαπητόν μου, Τι θέλετε ειπεί προς αυτόν; Ότι είμαι τετρωμένη υπό αγάπης.
8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
9 Τι διαφέρει άλλου αγαπητού ο αγαπητός σου, ω ώραία μεταξύ των γυναικών; τι διαφέρει άλλου αγαπητού ο αγαπητός σου, και ώρκισας ημάς ούτως;
9 How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us?
10 Ο αγαπητός μου είναι λευκός και ερυθρός, διακρινόμενος μεταξύ μυριάδων·
10 My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.
11 Η κεφαλή αυτού είναι χρυσίον δεδοκιμασμένον, οι πλόκαμοι αυτού κλάδοι φοινίκων, μέλανες ως κόραξ·
11 His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
12 οι οφθαλμοί αυτού ως περιστερών επί των ρυάκων των υδάτων, λελουμένοι εν γάλακτι, καθήμενοι ως λίθοι ενθέσεως·
12 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
13 Αι σιαγόνες αυτού ως πρασιαί αρωμάτων, ως αλώνια φυτών μυρεψικών· τα χείλη αυτού ως κρίνα, στάζοντα σμύρναν σταλακτήν·
13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
14 Αι χείρες αυτού δακτυλίδια χρυσά, πεπληρωμένα με βηρύλλιον· η κοιλία αυτού ελεφάντινον τεχνούργημα, περικεκοσμημένον με σαπφείρους·
14 His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
15 αι κνήμαι αυτού στύλοι μαρμάρινοι, εστηριγμένοι επί βάσεων καθαρού χρυσίου· το είδος αυτού ως Λίβανος· έξοχος ως κέδροι.
15 His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16 Ο ουρανίσκος αυτού είναι γλυκασμοί· και αυτός όλος επιθυμητός. Ούτος είναι ο αγαπητός μου, και ούτος ο φίλος μου, θυγατέρες Ιερουσαλήμ.
16 His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.
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 6:2; Song of Songs 4:16; Revelation 22:17; Song of Songs 4:9–14; Isaiah 55:1–2
- 2 Revelation 3:20; Song of Songs 2:14; Song of Songs 6:9; Zechariah 4:1; Psalm 119:1
- 3 Luke 11:7; Romans 7:22–23; Proverbs 22:13; Matthew 26:38–43; Proverbs 3:28
- 4 Philippians 2:13; Song of Songs 1:4; Acts 16:14; 2 Corinthians 8:16; 1 Kings 3:26
- 5 Song of Songs 5:13; Ephesians 3:17; Song of Songs 4:13–14; Revelation 3:20; 2 Corinthians 7:9–11
- 6 Song of Songs 5:2; Revelation 3:19; Hosea 5:15; Hosea 5:6; Isaiah 58:2
- 7 Song of Songs 3:3; Matthew 23:2; Hosea 6:5; Psalm 141:5; John 16:2
- 8 Song of Songs 2:5; Song of Songs 2:7; Psalm 42:1–3; Song of Songs 3:5; Galatians 6:1–2
- 9 Song of Songs 6:1; Song of Songs 1:8; Song of Songs 6:9–10; Psalm 45:13; Isaiah 53:2
- 10 Psalm 45:2; Psalm 45:17; Song of Songs 2:1; Philippians 2:9–11; Hebrews 7:26
- 11 Song of Songs 7:5; Revelation 1:14; Song of Songs 5:2; Daniel 7:9; Ephesians 1:21–22
- 12 Song of Songs 4:1; Song of Songs 1:15; Hebrews 4:13
- 13 Song of Songs 1:10; Song of Songs 2:1; Song of Songs 6:2; Song of Songs 4:11; Psalm 89:15
- 14 Exodus 24:10; Isaiah 54:11; Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 52:13; Ezekiel 1:16
- 15 1 Kings 4:33; Revelation 1:15–16; Acts 2:28; Hosea 14:7; Psalm 92:12
- 16 Psalm 45:2; Song of Songs 7:9; Psalm 119:103; Galatians 2:20; Song of Songs 1:16
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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).
I am come into My garden, My sister, My spouse; (now in the place where He was crucified was a garden;) and what takest Thou thence?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Filled with these thoughts may you, even in sleep, enjoy the pleasure of the day, so that you may be permitted to say, "I sleep but my heart waketh," meditating day and night upon the law of the Lord, to Whom be glory and power world without end.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
… begotten, and for forgiveness of sins; even as it was emblematically foretold that Christ should be thus manifested in the appearance of His eyes; for in the Canticles she cries concerning the Bridegroom, and says, Thine eyes are as doves by the rivers of water.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)