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8 ΑΣΜΑSONG OF SOLOMON - Brenton|RSVReference
1Τίς δῴη σε ἀδελφιδόν μου θηλάζοντα μαστοὺς μητρός μου;
εὑροῦσά σε ἔξω φιλήσω σε, καί γε οὐκ ἐξουδενώσουσίν μοι.
 I would that thou, O my kinsman, wert he that sucked the breasts of my mother;
when I found thee without, I would kiss thee;
yea, they should not despise me.		 
2παραλήμψομαί σε, εἰσάξω σε εἰς οἶκον μητρός μου καὶ εἰς ταμίειον τῆς συλλαβούσης με·
ποτιῶ σε ἀπὸ οἴνου τοῦ μυρεψικοῦ,
ἀπὸ νάματος ῥοῶν μου.
 I would take thee, I would bring thee into my mother's house,
and into the chamber of her that conceived me;
I would make thee to drink of spiced wine,
of the juice of my pomegranates.		 
3Εὐώνυμος αὐτοῦ ὑπὸ τὴν κεφαλήν μου,
καὶ ἡ δεξιὰ αὐτοῦ περιλήμψεταί με.
 His left hand [should be] under my head,
and his right hand should embrace me.		 
4Ὥρκισα ὑμᾶς, θυγατέρες Ιερουσαλημ,
ἐν ταῖς δυνάμεσιν καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἰσχύσεσιν τοῦ ἀγροῦ,
τί ἐγείρητε καὶ τί ἐξεγείρητε τὴν ἀγάπην, ἕως ἂν θελήσῃ.
 I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem,
by the virtues of the field,
that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please.		 
5Τίς αὕτη ἡ ἀναβαίνουσα λελευκανθισμένη
ἐπιστηριζομένη ἐπὶ τὸν ἀδελφιδὸν αὐτῆς;
Ὑπὸ μῆλον ἐξήγειρά σε·
ἐκεῖ ὠδίνησέν σε ἡ μήτηρ σου,
ἐκεῖ ὠδίνησέν σε ἡ τεκοῦσά σου.
 Who is this that comes up all white,
leaning on her kinsman?
I raised thee up under an apple-tree;
there thy mother brought thee forth;
there she that bore thee brought thee forth.		The sixth song. The women (a). She (b) Sg.8.5
6Θές με ὡς σφραγῖδα ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν σου,
ὡς σφραγῖδα ἐπὶ τὸν βραχίονά σου·
ὅτι κραταιὰ ὡς θάνατος ἀγάπη,
σκληρὸς ὡς ᾅδης ζῆλος·
περίπτερα αὐτῆς περίπτερα πυρός, φλόγες αὐτῆς·
 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm;
for love is strong as death;
jealousy is cruel as the grave,
her shafts are shafts of fire,
[even] the flames thereof.		She. Sg.8.6-7
7ὕδωρ πολὺ οὐ δυνήσεται σβέσαι τὴν ἀγάπην,
καὶ ποταμοὶ οὐ συγκλύσουσιν αὐτήν·
ἐὰν δῷ ἀνὴρ τὸν πάντα βίον αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ,
ἐξουδενώσει ἐξουδενώσουσιν αὐτόν.
 Much water will not be able to quench love,
and rivers shall not drown it;
if a man would give all his substance for love, [men] would utterly despise it.		 
8Ἀδελφὴ ἡμῖν μικρὰ καὶ μαστοὺς οὐκ ἔχει·
τί ποιήσωμεν τῇ ἀδελφῇ ἡμῶν
ἐν ἡμέρᾳ, ᾗ ἐὰν λαληθῇ ἐν αὐτῇ;
 Our sister is little, and has no breasts;
what shall we do for our sister,
in the day wherein she shall be spoken for?		 
9εἰ τεῖχός ἐστιν, οἰκοδομήσωμεν ἐπ' αὐτὴν ἐπάλξεις ἀργυρᾶς·
καὶ εἰ θύρα ἐστίν, διαγράψωμεν ἐπ' αὐτὴν σανίδα κεδρίνην.
 If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks;
and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels.		 
10Ἑγὼ τεῖχος, καὶ μαστοί μου ὡς πύργοι·
ἐγὼ ἤμην ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ ὡς εὑρίσκουσα εἰρήνην.
 I am a wall, and my breasts are as towers;
I was in their eyes as one that found peace.		She. Sg.8.10
11Ἀμπελὼν ἐγενήθη τῷ Σαλωμων ἐν Βεελαμων·
ἔδωκεν τὸν ἀμπελῶνα αὐτοῦ τοῖς τηροῦσιν,
ἀνὴρ οἴσει ἐν καρπῷ αὐτοῦ χιλίους ἀργυρίου.
 Solomon had a vineyard in Beelamon;
he let his vineyard to keepers;
every one was to bring for its fruit a thousand [pieces] of silver.		He. Sg.8.11-13
12ἀμπελών μου ἐμὸς ἐνώπιόν μου·
οἱ χίλιοι σοί, Σαλωμων, καὶ οἱ διακόσιοι
τοῖς τηροῦσι τὸν καρπὸν αὐτοῦ.
 My vineyard, even mine, is before me;
Solomon [shall have] a thousand,
and they that keep its fruit two hundred.		 
13Ὁ καθήμενος ἐν κήποις,
ἑταῖροι προσέχοντες τῇ φωνῇ σου· ἀκούτισόν με.
 Thou that dwellest in the gardens,
the companions hearken to thy voice: make me hear [it].		 
14Φύγε, ἀδελφιδέ μου, καὶ ὁμοιώθητι τῇ δορκάδι
ἢ τῷ νεβρῷ τῶν ἐλάφων ἐπὶ ὄρη ἀρωμάτων.
 Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe
or a fawn on the mountains of spices.		She. Sg.8.14
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Notes:

The Old Testament in Greek is Rahlf's LXX available in Word format at the Tyndale website, adapted to database format.
The alternative readings of the LXX - Judges (Alexandrinus), Daniel, Susanna & Bel (LXX received text), and Tobit (Sinaiticus [not printed in Swete]) as separate book references so that they can be viewed as an alternative text in parallel with the primary text.
(I have reversed the Swete presentation for Daniel, Susanna, Bel by listing in the later Theodotion LXX text as the main text. )
The LXX cross references to the Hebrew Bible have been extensively revised using those set out in Swete's 'Old Testament in Greek' publications between 1894 and 1909, amended in part to agree with verses as printed in the Biblia Hebraica (1937 publication).
Some verse cross references in Swete's had to be amended to agree with the BHS verse numbering, and there may well be some mismatches that I haven't yet picked up on. (If you find any errors please e-mail me.)
Hebrew Bible has been adapted from the BHS in Word format at Tyndale.
The Septuagint in English ( translated by Sir Lancelot CL Brenton) - is used here only for the books of the Hebrew Bible.
The Revised Standard Version: This generally follows the Hebrew Bible for the canonical OT so I have included the RSV Aprocrypha for the Greek books not covered by Brenton.
Ecclesiasticus - Sirach Chs.30-36: The text of these chapters from 30.24 to 36.16, is disordered.
I have followed Swete's verse numbering for the greek text.
Also, the RSV verse numbering differs from the NRSV.
The NRSV appears to have followed Swete's numbering here, so I have re-ordered the RSV to agree with both the NRSV & Swete for these chapters.
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