Canticum Canticorum, 7

1. Convertere, convertere, Sula mitis; convertere, convertere, ut intueamur te. Quid aspicitis in Sulamitem, cum saltat inter binos choros?

1. How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.

2. Quam pulchri sunt pedes tui in calceamentis, filia principis! Flexurae femorum tuorum sicut monilia, quae fabricata sunt manu artificis.

2. Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

3. Gremium tuum crater tornatilis: numquam indigeat vino mixto; venter tuus sicut acervus tritici vallatus liliis.

3. Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

4. Duo ubera tua sicut duo hinnuli, gemelli capreae,

4. Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rab'bim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.

5. collum tuum sicut turris eburnea. Oculi tui sicut piscinae in Hesebon, quae sunt ad portam Bathrabbim; nasus tuus sicut turris Libani, quae respicit contra Damascum.

5. Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.

6. Caput tuum ut Carmelus, et comae capitis tui sicut purpura; rex vincitur cincinnis.

6. How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!

7. Quam pulchra es et quam decora, carissima, in deliciis!

7. You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.

8. Statura tua assimilata est palmae, et ubera tua botris.

8. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

9. Dixi: “Ascendam in palmam et apprehendam fructus eius”. Et erunt ubera tua sicut botri vineae, et odor oris tui sicut malorum.

9. and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.

10. Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum, dignum dilecto meo ad potandum, labiisque et dentibus illius ad ruminandum.

10. I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

11. Ego dilecto meo, et ad me appetitus eius.

11. Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;

12. Veni, dilecte mi, egrediamur in agrum, commoremur in villis;

12. let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.

13. mane properabimus ad vineas, videbimus; si floruit vinea, si flores aperiuntur, si floruerunt mala punica; ibi dabo tibi amores meos.

13. The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.

14. Mandragorae dederunt odorem; in portis nostris omnia poma optima, nova et vetera, dilecte mi, servavi tibi.

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