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Canticles 2:8

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

Challoner: The voice of my belovedthat is, the preaching of the gospel surmounting difficulties figuratively here expressed by mountains and little hills.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Sponsa Vox dilecti mei ; ecce iste venit, saliens in montibus, transiliens colles.
Septuagint (Swete): Φωνὴ ἀδελφιδοῦ μου· ἰδοὺ οὗτος ἥκει πηδῶν ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη, διαλλόμενος ἐπὶ τοὺς βουνούς.
Hebrew (WLC): ק֣וֹל דּוֹדִ֔י הִנֵּה זֶ֖ה בָּ֑א מְדַלֵּג֙ עַל הֶ֣הָרִ֔ים מְקַפֵּ֖ץ עַל הַגְּבָעֽוֹת

Haydock's commentary

The. Feeling the protection of Christ, the Church preacheth boldly the truth against pagans and heretics. (Worthington)

She knows the voice of the shepherd, (John viii. 47., and x. 2.) and keeps at a distance the wolves in sheep's clothing, or pretended reformers, who would scatter the flock.

Hills. She sees him returning in the evening with the utmost speed of a stag, as the Hebrew implies, chap. ii. 9., and viii. 14.

Haydock wrote amid the controversies of his day. The Church teaches that those born into communities separated from her cannot be charged with the sin of separation, and embraces them as brothers (CCC 818).

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.