Canticles 5:13
His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Genæ illius sicut areolæ aromatum, consitæ a pigmentariis. Labia ejus lilia, distillantia myrrham primam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σιαγόνες αὐτοῦ ὡς φιάλαι τοῦ ἀρώματος φύουσαι μυρεψικά, χείλη αὐτοῦ κρίνα στάζοντα σμύρναν πλήρη.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לְחָיָו֙ כַּעֲרוּגַ֣ת הַבֹּ֔שֶׂם מִגְדְּל֖וֹת מֶרְקָחִ֑ים שִׂפְתוֹתָיו֙ שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּ֔ים נֹטְפ֖וֹת מ֥וֹר עֹבֵֽר
Haydock's commentary
Set by. Protestants, "as sweet flowers."
Choice. Literally, "the first," ver. 5. (Haydock)
The modesty and words of Christ excited admiration, 1 Peter ii. 21., and John vii. 46. (Calmet)
He exhorted sinners to repent, and rebuked the obstinate. (Menochius)
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.