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Cantique des Cantiques 8
La Bible du Semeur
Cantique des Cantiques 8
La Bible du Semeur
8 Ah, que n’es-tu mon frère
allaité par ma mère !
Te rencontrant dehors, ╵je pourrais t’embrasser
sans que l’on me méprise,
2 je pourrais t’emmener, ╵je te ferais entrer ╵au foyer de ma mère,
de celle qui m’a enseignée[a]
et je te ferais boire ╵du bon vin parfumé
de mon jus de grenades.
3 Son bras gauche soutient ma tête,
et son bras droit m’enlace.
4 O filles de Jérusalem, ╵oh, je vous en conjure,
n’éveillez pas, ╵non, ne réveillez pas l’amour
avant qu’il ne le veuille[b]. »
Le chœur
5 « Qui donc est celle-ci ╵qui monte du désert
s’appuyant sur son bien-aimé ? »
L’amour : fort comme la mort
« C’est dessous le pommier ╵que je t’ai réveillé,
à l’endroit où ta mère ╵t’avait conçu,
oui, au lieu même où te conçut ╵celle qui devait t’enfanter.
6 Mets-moi comme un sceau[c] sur ton cœur,
comme un sceau sur ton bras.
L’amour est fort ╵comme la mort,
et la passion ╵est inflexible ╵comme le séjour des défunts.
Les flammes de l’amour ╵sont des flammes ardentes,
une flamme venant de l’Eternel[d].
7 Même de grosses eaux ╵ne peuvent éteindre l’amour,
et des fleuves puissants ╵ne l’emporteront pas.
L’homme qui offrirait ╵tous les biens qu’il possède ╵pour acheter l’amour
n’obtiendrait que mépris. »
La petite sœur
8 « Nous avons une sœur,
elle est petite encore, ╵sa poitrine n’est pas formée,
que ferons-nous pour notre sœur
lorsqu’il sera question ╵de la marier ? »
9 « Si elle est un rempart,
nous bâtirons sur elle ╵des créneaux en argent.
Si elle est une porte,
nous, nous la bloquerons ╵d’un madrier de cèdre.
10 Moi, je suis un rempart,
mes seins en sont les tours.
Aussi ai-je trouvé la paix, ╵auprès de lui. »
La vigne de Salomon
11 « Salomon avait une vigne ╵à Baal-Hamôn[e],
il la remit à des gardiens.
Pour en payer le fruit, ╵chacun d’eux lui donnait ╵un millier de pièces d’argent.
12 Ma vigne à moi est devant moi.
Toi, Salomon, tu peux avoir ╵ton millier de pièces d’argent,
puis, deux cents pièces ╵seront données à ceux ╵qui ont gardé ses fruits. »
Fais-moi entendre ta voix
13 « Toi qui habites les jardins,
des compagnons prêtent l’oreille,
oh ! fais-moi entendre ta voix ! »
14 « Enfuis-toi vite, toi mon bien-aimé,
et sois pareil à la gazelle ╵ou à un jeune faon,
sur les monts embaumés. »
Footnotes
- 8.2 Autre traduction : là, tu m’enseignerais.
- 8.4 Voir 2.7 et note ; 3.5.
- 8.6 Le sceau imprimait le signe d’authenticité sur les actes officiels (il remplaçait notre signature). On le portait toujours avec soi, attaché à un cordon autour du cou (sur ton cœur) ou porté au doigt (sur ton bras).
- 8.6 Autre traduction : une flamme intense à l’extrême.
- 8.11 Baal-Hamôn: lieu non identifié ; il s’agit peut-être d’un nom symbolique, signifiant : maître d’une multitude, et faisant allusion au harem de Salomon.
Song of Solomon 8
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Song of Solomon 8
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
8 [Looking forward to the shepherd’s arrival, the eager girl pictures their meeting and says] Oh, that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I should find you without, I would kiss you, yes, and none would despise me [for it].(A)
2 I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would cause you to drink spiced wine and of the juice of my pomegranates.
3 [Then musingly she added] Oh, that his left hand were under my head and that his right hand embraced me!(B)
4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you never [again attempt to] stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved? [And as they sighted the home of her childhood, the bride said] Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother gave you birth, there she was in travail and bore you.
6 Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm; for love is as strong as death, jealousy is as hard and cruel as Sheol (the place of the dead). Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame [the very flame of the Lord]!(C)
7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would offer all the goods of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned and despised.
8 [Gathered with her family and the wedding guests in her mother’s cottage, the bride said to her stepbrothers, When I was a little girl, you said] We have a little sister and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for in marriage?
9 If she is a wall [discreet and womanly], we will build upon her a turret [a dowry] of silver; but if she is a door [bold and flirtatious], we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
10 [Well] I am a wall [with battlements], and my breasts are like the towers of it. Then was I in [the king’s] eyes as one [to be respected and to be allowed] to find peace.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; everyone was to bring him a thousand pieces of silver for its fruit.
12 You, O Solomon, can have your thousand [pieces of silver], and those who tend the fruit of it two hundred; but my vineyard, which is mine [with all its radiant joy], is before me!
13 O you who dwell in the gardens, your companions have been listening to your voice—now cause me to hear it.
14 [Joyfully the radiant bride turned to him, the one altogether lovely, the chief among ten thousand to her soul, and with unconcealed eagerness to begin her life of sweet companionship with him, she answered] Make haste, my beloved, and come quickly, like a gazelle or a young hart [and take me to our waiting home] upon the mountains of spices!
Song of Songs 8
New International Version
Song of Songs 8
New International Version
8 If only you were to me like a brother,
who was nursed at my mother’s breasts!
Then, if I found you outside,
I would kiss you,
and no one would despise me.
2 I would lead you
and bring you to my mother’s house(A)—
she who has taught me.
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
the nectar of my pomegranates.
3 His left arm is under my head
and his right arm embraces me.(B)
4 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you:
Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.(C)
Friends
5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness(D)
leaning on her beloved?
She
Under the apple tree I roused you;
there your mother conceived(E) you,
there she who was in labor gave you birth.
6 Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love(F) is as strong as death,
its jealousy[a](G) unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.[b]
7 Many waters cannot quench love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give
all the wealth of one’s house for love,
it[c] would be utterly scorned.(H)
Friends
8 We have a little sister,
and her breasts are not yet grown.
What shall we do for our sister
on the day she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,
we will build towers of silver on her.
If she is a door,
we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
She
10 I am a wall,
and my breasts are like towers.
Thus I have become in his eyes
like one bringing contentment.
11 Solomon had a vineyard(I) in Baal Hamon;
he let out his vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for its fruit
a thousand shekels[d](J) of silver.
12 But my own vineyard(K) is mine to give;
the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,
and two hundred[e] are for those who tend its fruit.
He
13 You who dwell in the gardens
with friends in attendance,
let me hear your voice!
She
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 8:6 Or ardor
- Song of Songs 8:6 Or fire, / like the very flame of the Lord
- Song of Songs 8:7 Or he
- Song of Songs 8:11 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms; also in verse 12
- Song of Songs 8:12 That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms
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