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title: "Song of Songs 4 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate"
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description: "Christ sets forth the graces of his spouse: and declares his love for her. Song of Songs 4 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Song of Songs 4

Song of Songs 4 is chapter 4 of 8 in the Song of Songs. Here are all 16 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ sets forth the graces of his spouse: and declares his love for her.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Song of Songs 4 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Groom to Bride: How beautiful you are, my love, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are those of a dove, except for what is hidden within. Your hair is like flocks of goats, which ascend along the mountain of Gilead.
2. Your teeth are like flocks of shorn sheep, which ascend from the washing, each one with its identical twin, and not one among them is barren.
3. Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your eloquence is sweetness. Like a piece of pomegranate, so are your cheeks, except for what is hidden within.
4. Your neck is like the tower of David, which was built with ramparts: a thousand shields are hanging from it, all the armor of the strong.
5. Your two breasts are like two young does, twins that pasture among the lilies.
6. Until the day rises and the shadows decline, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.
7. You are totally beautiful, my love, and there is no blemish in you.
8. Advance from Lebanon, my spouse, advance from Lebanon, advance. You shall be crowned at the head of Amana, near the summit of Senir and Hermon, by the dens of lions, by the mountains of leopards.
9. You have wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse. You have wounded my heart with one look of your eyes, and with one lock of hair on your neck.
10. How beautiful are your breasts, my sister, my spouse! Your breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the fragrance of your ointments is above all aromatic oils.
11. Your lips, my spouse, are a dripping honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue. And the fragrance of your garments is like the odor of frankincense.
12. An enclosed garden is my sister, my spouse: an enclosed garden, a sealed fountain.
13. You send forth a paradise of pomegranates along with the fruits of the orchard: Cypress grapes, with aromatic oil;
14. aromatic oil and saffron; sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees of Lebanon; myrrh and aloe, with all the best ointments.
15. The fountain of the gardens is a well of living waters, which flow forcefully from Lebanon.
16. Rise up, north wind, and advance, south wind. Send a breeze through my garden, and carry its aromatic scents.

## Song of Songs 4 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Quam pulchra es, amica mea! quam pulchra es! Oculi tui columbarum, absque eo quod intrinsecus latet. Capilli tui sicut greges caprarum quæ ascenderunt de monte Galaad.
2. Dentes tui sicut greges tonsarum quæ ascenderunt de lavacro; omnes gemellis fœtibus, et sterilis non est inter eas.
3. Sicut vitta coccinea labia tua, et eloquium tuum dulce. Sicut fragmen mali punici, ita genæ tuæ, absque eo quod intrinsecus latet.
4. Sicut turris David collum tuum, quæ ædificata est cum propugnaculis; mille clypei pendent ex ea, omnis armatura fortium.
5. Duo ubera tua sicut duo hinnuli, capreæ gemelli, qui pascuntur in liliis.
6. Donec aspiret dies, et inclinentur umbræ, vadam ad montem myrrhæ, et ad collem thuris.
7. Tota pulchra es, amica mea, et macula non est in te.
8. Veni de Libano, sponsa mea: veni de Libano, veni, coronaberis: de capite Amana, de vertice Sanir et Hermon, de cubilibus leonum, de montibus pardorum.
9. Vulnerasti cor meum, soror mea, sponsa; vulnerasti cor meum in uno oculorum tuorum, et in uno crine colli tui.
10. Quam pulchræ sunt mammæ tuæ, soror mea sponsa! pulchriora sunt ubera tua vino, et odor unguentorum tuorum super omnia aromata.
11. Favus distillans labia tua, sponsa; mel et lac sub lingua tua: et odor vestimentorum tuorum sicut odor thuris.
12. Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus.
13. Emissiones tuæ paradisus malorum punicorum, cum pomorum fructibus, cypri cum nardo.
14. Nardus et crocus, fistula et cinnamomum, cum universis lignis Libani; myrrha et aloë, cum omnibus primis unguentis.
15. Fons hortorum, puteus aquarum viventium, quæ fluunt impetu de Libano.
16. Surge, aquilo, et veni, auster: perfla hortum meum, et fluant aromata illius.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: Christ again praises the beauties of his church, which through the whole of this chapter are exemplified by a variety of metaphors, setting forth her purity, her simplicity, and her stability.
- Verse 5: Mystically to be understood: the love of God and the love of our neighbour, which are so united as twins which feed among the lilies: that is, the love of God and our neighbour, feeds on the divine mysteries and the holy sacraments, left by Christ to his spouse to feed and nourish her children.
- Verse 12: Figuratively the church is enclosed, containing only the faithful.
- Verse 12: That none can drink of its waters, that is, the graces and spiritual benefits of the holy sacraments, but those who are within its walls.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).