Proverbs 7:18
Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Veni, inebriemur uberibus, et fruamur cupitis amplexibus donec illucescat dies.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐλθὲ καὶ ἀπολαύσωμεν φιλίας ἕως ὄρθρου, δεῦρο καὶ ἐνκυλισθῶμεν ἔρωτι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לְכָ֤ה נִרְוֶ֣ה דֹ֭דִים עַד הַבֹּ֑קֶר נִ֝תְעַלְּסָ֗ה בָּאֳהָבִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Inebriated. Protestants, "take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves." (Haydock)
This passion is a sort of intoxication. (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.