Canticles 8:4
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sponsus Adjuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem, ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, donec ipsa velit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ὥρκισα ὑμᾶς, θυγατέρες Ἰερουσαλήμ, ἐν ταῖς δυνάμεσιν καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἰσχύσεσιν τοῦ ἀγροῦ, ἐὰν ἐγείρητε καὶ ἐξεγείρητε τὴν ἀγάπην ἕως ἂν θελήσῃ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי אֶתְכֶ֖ם בְּנ֣וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם מַה תָּעִ֧ירוּ וּֽמַה תְּעֹֽרְר֛וּ אֶת הָאַהֲבָ֖ה עַ֥ד שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ
Haydock's commentary
Jerusalem. Septuagint add, "by the armies and powers of the field," as [in] chap. ii. 7., and iii. 5. (Haydock)
The spouse presently awakes after the sixth night, and goes out. (Calmet)
Christ admonishes all not to disturb those who would serve him. (Worthington)
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.