Septuaginta, Canticle, ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D., 6

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Ἀδελφός μου κατέβη εἰς κῆπον αὐτοῦ

εἰς φιάλας τοῦ ἀρῶματος,

ποιμαίνειν ἐν κήποις καὶ συλλέγειν κρίνα.

ἐγκ τῷ ἀδελφιδῷ μου καὶ ἀδελφιδός μου ἐμοί,

ὁ ποιμαίνων ἐν τοῖς κρίνοις.

Καλὴ εἶ πλησίον μου, ὡς εὐδοκία,

ὡραία ὡς Ἰερουσαλὴμ,

θάμβος ὡς τεταγμέναι.

ἀπόστρεψον ὀφθαλμούς σου ἀπεναντίον μου,

ὅτι αὐτοὶ ἀνεπτέραοσαν με.

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τρίχωμά σου ὡς ἀγέλαι τῶν αἰγῶν

αἳ ἀνεφάνησαν ἀπὸ τοῦ Γαλαὰδ,

ὀδόντες σου ὡς ἀγέλαι τῶν κεκαρμένων

αἳ ἀνέβησαν ἀπὸ τοῦ λουτροῦ,

αἱ πᾶσαι διδυμεύουσαι,

καὶ ἀτεκνοῦσα οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐταῖς.

ὡς σπαρτίον τὸ κόκκινον χείλη σου,

καὶ ἡ λαλιά σου ὡραία.

ὡς λέπυρον ῥόας μῆλόν σου

ἐκτὸς τῆς σιωπήσεως σου.

ἐξήκοντά εἰσιν βασίύισσαι, καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα παλλακαί,

καὶ νεάνιδες ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμός·

μία ἐστὶν περιστερά μου, τελεία μου,

μία ἐστὶν τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῆς,

ἐκλεκτή ἐστιν τῇ τεκούσῃ αὐτῆς.

εἴδοσαν αὐτὴν θυγατέρες καὶ ναεαοωῦσιν αὐτήν,

βασίλισσαι καί γε παλλακαί, καὶ αἰνέσουσιν αὐτήν.

Τίς αὕτη ἡ ἐκκύπτουσα ὡσεὶ ὄρθρος.

καλὴ ὡς σελήνη, ἐκλεκτὴ ὡς ὁ ἥλιος,

θάμβος ὡς τεταγμέναις

Εἰς κῆπον καρύας κατέβην ἰδεῖν ἐν γενήμασιν τοῦ

χειμάρρου,

ἰδεῖν εἰ ἤνθησεν ἡ ἄμπελος,

ἐξήνθησαν αἱ ῥόαι·

ἐκεῖ δώσω τοὺς μαστούς μου σοί.

οὐκ ἔγνω ἡ ψυχή μου· ἔθετό με ἄρματα Ἀμειναδάβ.

Ἐπίστρεφε, ἐπίστρεφε, ἡ Σουμανεῖτις·

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Canticle. Septuaginta. ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.. United States. 2017.

Funding provided by Harvard Library Arcadia Fund.

Current edition First1KGreek

Ἆσμα (Greek) (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 2: I Chronicles-Tobit. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896.)

Translations (1)

Canticle Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 6 focus

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved

My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,

You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, Lovely as Jerusalem, Awesome as an army with banners.

Turn away your eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, That lie along the side of Gilead.

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which have come up from the washing; Of which every one has twins; None is bereaved among them.

Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, And virgins without number.

My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Beautiful as the moon, Clear as the sun, Awesome as an army with banners?

I went down into the nut tree grove, To see the green plants of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, And the pomegranates were in flower.

Without realizing it, My desire set me with my royal people’s chariots. Friends

Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, As at the dance of Mahanaim?

Notes on the current edition

Canticle

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