CHAP. VI.
The spouse of Christ is but one:
she is fair and terrible.
1 My beloved is gone down
into his garden, to
the bed of aromatical spices,
to feed in the gardens, and to
gather lilies.
2 I to my beloved, and
my beloved to me, who feedeth
among the lilies.
3 Thou art beautiful, O
my love, sweet, and comely
as Jerusalem: terrible as an
army set in array.
4 Turn away thy eyes
from me, for they have made
me flee away. Thy hair is
as a flock of goats, that appear
from Galaad.
5 Thy teeth as a flock of
sheep, which come up from
the washing, all with twins,
and there is none barren among
them.
6 Thy cheeks are as the
bark of a pomegranate, beside
what is hidden within thee.
7 There are threescore
queens, and fourscore concubines,
and young maidens without
number.
8 One is my dove, my perfect
one is but one, she is the
only one of her mother, the
chosen of her that bore her.
The daughters saw her, and
declared her most blessed: the
queens and concubines, and
they praised her.
9 Who is she that cometh
forth as the morning rising,
fair as the moon, bright as the
sun, terrible as an army set
in array?
10 I went down into the
garden of nuts, to see the fruits
of the vallies, and to look if
the vineyard had flourished,
and the pomegranates budded,
11 I knew not: my soul
troubled me for the chariots of
Aminadab.
12 Return, return O note
Sulamitesse: return, return,
that we may behold thee.
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Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
