1 Oh that thou werest as my brother that sucked the brestes of my mother: I would finde thee without, I would kisse thee, then they should not despise thee. 2 I will leade thee and bring thee into my mothers house: there thou shalt teache me: and I will cause thee to drinke spiced wine, and newe wine of the pomegranate. 3 His left hand shalbe vnder mine head, and his right hand shall embrace me. 4 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusale, that you stir not vp, nor waken my loue, vntil she please. 5 (Who is this that commeth vp out of the wildernesse, leaning vpon her welbeloued?) I raysed thee vp vnder an apple tree: there thy mother conceiued thee: there she coceiued that bare thee. 6 Set mee as a seale on thine heart, and as a signet vpon thine arme: for loue is strong as death: ielousie is cruel as the graue: the coles thereof are fierie coles, and a vehement flame. 7 Much water can not quench loue, neither can the floods drowne it: If a man should giue all the substance of his house for loue, they would greatly contemne it. 8 Wee haue a litle sister, and she hath no breastes: what shall we do for our sister when she shalbe spoken for? 9 If shee be a wall, we will builde vpon her a siluer palace: and if she be a doore, we wil keepe her in with bordes of cedar. 10 I am a wall, and my breasts are as towres: then was I in his eyes as one that findeth peace. 11 Salomon had a vine in Baal-hamon: hee gaue the vineyarde vnto keepers: euery one bringeth for ye fruite thereof a thousand pieces of siluer. 12 But my vineyarde which is mine, is before me: to thee, O Salomon appertaineth a thousand pieces of siluer, and two hundreth to them that keepe the fruite thereof. 13 O thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken vnto thy voyce: cause me to heare it. 14 O my welbeloued, flee away, and be like vnto the roe, or to the yong harte vpon ye mountaines of spices.
Cantar de los Cantares · Biblia de Ginebra (1599)
Cantar de los Cantares 8 Biblia de Ginebra (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
Referencias cruzadas (14)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Salmo 45:10–11; Zacarías 9:9; Gálatas 4:26; Lucas 2:38; Hageo 2:7
- 2 Cantar de los Cantares 3:4; Cantar de los Cantares 4:10–5:1; Cantar de los Cantares 7:12; Gálatas 4:26; Juan 5:46–47
- 3 Cantar de los Cantares 2:6; 2 Corintios 12:9; Deuteronomio 33:27; Isaías 62:4–5
- 4 Cantar de los Cantares 2:7; Cantar de los Cantares 3:5
- 5 Cantar de los Cantares 3:6; Isaías 40:3; Salmo 63:8; Cantar de los Cantares 2:3; Cantar de los Cantares 3:4
- 6 Apocalipsis 12:11; Isaías 49:16; Filipenses 1:20–23; Cantar de los Cantares 5:8; Proverbios 6:34
- 7 Proverbios 6:35; Proverbios 6:31; Isaías 43:2; Romanos 13:8–10; Mateo 7:24–25
- 8 1 Pedro 2:12; Ezequiel 16:55–56; Hechos 22:21; Salmo 2:8; Romanos 3:1–2
- 9 Zacarías 6:12–15; Efesios 2:20–22; 1 Corintios 3:10–12; 1 Reyes 6:15; Apocalipsis 21:12–19
- 10 Isaías 60:10; Ezequiel 16:7; Lucas 1:30; Cantar de los Cantares 7:7–8; Efesios 1:6
- 11 Eclesiastés 2:4; Isaías 7:23; Mateo 21:33–43; Marcos 12:1; Génesis 20:16
- 12 Cantar de los Cantares 1:6; Hechos 20:28; 1 Tesalonicenses 2:19; Proverbios 4:23; 1 Corintios 6:20
- 13 Cantar de los Cantares 4:16; Cantar de los Cantares 1:7; Cantar de los Cantares 6:2; Jueces 14:11; Juan 14:21–23
- 14 Cantar de los Cantares 2:17; Apocalipsis 22:20; Apocalipsis 22:17; Cantar de los Cantares 2:9; Filipenses 1:23
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Of this it is said, "Love is strong as death." For as when death cometh, it cannot be resisted; by whatever arts, whatever medicines, you meet it; the violence of death can none avoid who is born mortal; so against the violence of love can the world do nothing.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… ye know how great a thing jealousy is: and therefore He said, to whom these things are clearly known, "For full of jealousy is the rage of a husband;" "he will not spare in the day of vengeance:" and "jealousy is cruel as the grave." And we too know of many that have chosen to give up their lives rather …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Many waters quench not love, neither do rivers drown it; He was dead whom they sought, yet was not the hope of the Resurrection quenched.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Hear the Song of songs: "Love is strong as death." A great saying that, brethren, "Love is strong as death." The strength of charity could not be expressed in grander terms than these, "Love is strong as death." For who resisteth death, my brethren?
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)