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title: "Song of Songs 7 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate"
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description: "A further description of the graces of the church the spouse of Christ. Song of Songs 7 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Song of Songs 7

Song of Songs 7 is chapter 7 of 8 in the Song of Songs. Here are all 13 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> A further description of the graces of the church the spouse of Christ.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Song of Songs 7 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Chorus to Groom: What will you see in the Sulamitess, other than choruses of encampments?
2. Chorus to Bride: How beautiful are your footsteps in shoes, O daughter of a ruler! The joints of your thighs are like jewels, which have been fabricated by the hand of an artist.
3. Your navel is a round bowl, never lacking in curvature. Your abdomen is like a bundle of wheat, surrounded with lilies.
4. Your two breasts are like two young twin does.
5. Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes like the fish ponds at Heshbon, which are at the entrance to the daughter of the multitude. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, which looks out toward Damascus.
6. Your head is like Carmel, and the hairs of your head are like the purple of the king, bound into pleats.
7. Most beloved one, how beautiful you are, and how graceful in delights!
8. Your stature is comparable to the palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.
9. Groom: I said, I will ascend to the palm tree, and take hold of its fruit. And your breasts will be like clusters of grapes on the vine. And the fragrance of your mouth will be like apples.
10. Bride: Your throat is like the finest wine: wine worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and teeth to contemplate.
11. I am for my beloved, and his turning is to me.
12. Approach, my beloved. Let us go out into the field; let us linger in the villages.
13. Let us go up in the morning to the vineyards; let us see if the vineyard has flourished, if the flowers are ready to bear fruit, if the pomegranates have flourished. There I will give my breasts to you. The mandrakes yield their fragrance. At our gates is every fruit. The new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for you.

## Song of Songs 7 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Quid videbis in Sulamite, nisi choros castrorum? Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui in calceamentis, filia principis! Juncturæ femorum tuorum sicut monilia quæ fabricata sunt manu artificis.
2. Umbilicus tuus crater tornatilis, numquam indigens poculis. Venter tuus sicut acervus tritici vallatus liliis.
3. Duo ubera tua sicut duo hinnuli, gemelli capreæ.
4. Collum tuum sicut turris eburnea; oculi tui sicut piscinæ in Hesebon quæ sunt in porta filiæ multitudinis. Nasus tuus sicut turris Libani, quæ respicit contra Damascum.
5. Caput tuum ut Carmelus; et comæ capitis tui sicut purpura regis vincta canalibus.
6. Quam pulchra es, et quam decora, carissima, in deliciis!
7. Statura tua assimilata est palmæ, et ubera tua botris.
8. Dixi: Ascendam in palmam, et apprehendam fructus ejus; et erunt ubera tua sicut botri vineæ, et odor oris tui sicut malorum.
9. Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum, dignum dilecto meo ad potandum, labiisque et dentibus illius ad ruminandum.
10. Ego dilecto meo, et ad me conversio ejus.
11. Veni, dilecte mi, egrediamur in agrum, commoremur in villis.
12. Mane surgamus ad vineas: videamus si floruit vinea, si flores fructus parturiunt, si floruerunt mala punica; ibi dabo tibi ubera mea.
13. Mandragoræ dederunt odorem in portis nostris omnia poma: nova et vetera, dilecte mi, servavi tibi.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: By these metaphors are signified the power and mission of the church in propagating the true faith.
- Verse 5: Christ, the invisible head of his church, is here signified.

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