Canticum Canticorum 6
1 quo abiit dilectus tuus o pulcherrima mulierum quo declinavit dilectus tuus et quaeremus eum tecum
Where is your beloved gone, O you fairest among women? where is your beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with you.
2 dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum ad areolam aromatis ut pascatur in hortis et lilia colligat
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
3 ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi qui pascitur inter lilia
I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feeds among the lilies.
4 pulchra es amica mea suavis et decora sicut Hierusalem terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata
You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
5 averte oculos tuos a me quia ipsi me avolare fecerunt capilli tui sicut grex caprarum quae apparuerunt de Galaad
Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me: your hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
6 dentes tui sicut grex ovium quae ascenderunt de lavacro omnes gemellis fetibus et sterilis non est in eis
Your teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one bears twins, and there is not one barren among them.
7 sicut cortex mali punici genae tuae absque occultis tuis
As a piece of a pomegranate are your temples within your locks.
8 sexaginta sunt reginae et octoginta concubinae et adulescentularum non est numerus
There are three score queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
9 una est columba mea perfecta mea una est matris suae electa genetrici suae viderunt illam filiae et beatissimam praedicaverunt reginae et concubinae et laudaverunt eam
My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yes, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
10 quae est ista quae progreditur quasi aurora consurgens pulchra ut luna electa ut sol terribilis ut acies ordinata
Who is she that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
11 descendi ad hortum nucum ut viderem poma convallis ut inspicerem si floruisset vinea et germinassent mala punica
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.
12 nescivi anima mea conturbavit me propter quadrigas Aminadab
Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.
13 revertere revertere Sulamitis revertere revertere ut intueamur te quid videbis in Sulamiten nisi choros castrorum
Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look on you. What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
