Cantacle Of Cantacles

Question 1

1:1

Answer 1

Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine,

Question 2

1:2

Answer 2

Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.

Question 3

1:3

Answer 3

Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the righteous love thee.

Question 4

1:4

Answer 4

I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Question 5

1:5

Answer 5

Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.

Question 6

1:6

Answer 6

Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.

Question 7

1:7

Answer 7

If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and follow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents of the shepherds.

Question 8

1:8

Answer 8

To my company of horsemen, in Pharao’s chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.

Question 9

1:9

Answer 9

Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove’s, thy neck as jewels.

Question 10

1:10

Answer 10

We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

Question 11

1:11

Answer 11

While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.

Question 12

1:12

Answer 12

A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts.

Question 13

1:13

Answer 13

A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.

Question 14

1:14

Answer 14

Behold thou art fair, O my love, behold thou art fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.

Question 15

1:15

Answer 15

Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.

Question 16

1:16

Answer 16

The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.

Question 17

2:1

Answer 17

I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the valleys.

Question 18

2:2

Answer 18

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Question 19

2:3

Answer 19

As the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow, whom I desired: and his fruit was sweet to my palate.

Question 20

2:4

Answer 20

He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in me.

Question 21

2:5

Answer 21

Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.

Question 22

2:6

Answer 22

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

Question 23

2:7

Answer 23

I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the, fields, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Question 24

2:8

Answer 24

The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills.

Question 25

2:9

Answer 25

My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.

Question 26

2:10

Answer 26

Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come.

Question 27

2:11

Answer 27

For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone.

Question 28

2:12

Answer 28

The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle is heard in our land:

Question 29

2:13

Answer 29

The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower yield their sweet smell. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come:

Question 30

2:14

Answer 30

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

Question 31

2:15

Answer 31

Catch us the little foxes that destroy the vines: for our vineyard hath flourished.

Question 32

2:16

Answer 32

My beloved to me, and I to him who feedeth among the lilies,

Question 33

2:17

Answer 33

Till the day break, and the shadows retire. Return: be like, my beloved, to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Question 34

3:1

Answer 34

In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not.

Question 35

3:2

Answer 35

I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not.

Question 36

3:3

Answer 36

The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?

Question 37

3:4

Answer 37

When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.

Question 38

3:5

Answer 38

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.

Question 39

3:6

Answer 39

Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer?

Question 40

3:7

Answer 40

Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon?

Question 41

3:8

Answer 41

All holding swords, and most expert in war : every man’s sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.

Question 42

3:9

Answer 42

King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus:

Question 43

3:10

Answer 43

The pillars thereof he made of silver, the seat of gold, the going up of purple : the midst he covered with charity for the daughters of Jerusalem.

Question 44

3:11

Answer 44

Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the diadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the joy of his heart.

Question 45

4:1

Answer 45

How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves’ eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which Come up from mount Galaad.

Question 46

4:2

Answer 46

Thy teeth as flocks of sheep, that are shorn which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them.

Question 47

4:3

Answer 47

Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks are as a piece of a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid within.

Question 48

4:4

Answer 48

Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.

Question 49

4:5

Answer 49

Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

Question 50

4:6

Answer 50

Till the day break, and the shadows retire, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Question 51

4:7

Answer 51

Thou art all fair, O my love, and there is not a spot in thee.

Question 52

4:8

Answer 52

Come from Libanus, my spouse, come from Libanus, come: thou shalt be crowned from the top of Amana, from the top of Sanir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

Question 53

4:9

Answer 53

Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck.

Question 54

4:10

Answer 54

How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.

Question 55

4:11

Answer 55

Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense.

Question 56

4:12

Answer 56

My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.

Question 57

4:13

Answer 57

Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.

Question 58

4:14

Answer 58

Spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees of Libanus, myrrh and aloes with all the chief perfumes.

Question 59

4:15

Answer 59

The fountain of gardens: the well of living waters, which run with a strong stream from Libanus.

Question 60

4:16

Answer 60

Arise, O north wind, and come, O south wind, blow through my garden, and let the aromatical spices thereof flow.

Question 61

5:1

Answer 61

Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

Question 62

5:2

Answer 62

I sleep, and my heart watcheth; the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.

Question 63

5:3

Answer 63

I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?

Question 64

5:4

Answer 64

My beloved put his hand through the key hole, and my bowels were moved at his touch.

Question 65

5:5

Answer 65

I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.

Question 66

5:6

Answer 66

I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved: but he had turned aside, and was gone. My soul melted when he spoke: I sought him, and found him not: I called, and he did not answer me.

Question 67

5:7

Answer 67

The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

Question 68

5:8

Answer 68

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.

Question 69

5:9

Answer 69

What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, O thou most beautiful among women? what manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, that thou hast so adjured us?

Question 70

5:10

Answer 70

My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.

Question 71

5:11

Answer 71

His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven.

Question 72

5:12

Answer 72

His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.

Question 73

5:13

Answer 73

His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrb.

Question 74

5:14

Answer 74

His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory, set with sapphires.

Question 75

5:15

Answer 75

His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold. His form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars.

Question 76

5:16

Answer 76

His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.

Question 77

5:17

Answer 77

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou most beautiful among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside, and we will seek him with thee?

Question 78

6

Answer 78

”My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. I to my beloved, and my beloved to me, who feedeth among the lilies. Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem: terrible as an army set in array. 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. Thy teeth as a flock of sheep, which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them. Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden within thee. There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number. 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. 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? I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valleys, and to look if the vineyard had flourished, and the pomegranates budded. I knew not: my soul troubled me for the chariots of Aminadab. Return, return, O Sulamitess: return, return that we may behold thee.“
‭‭Canticle of Canticles (Song of Solomon)‬ ‭6‬:‭1‬-‭12‬ ‭DRC1752‬‬
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