Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
Song of Solomon 8:8 - Revised Standard Version CI 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? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [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? American Standard Version (1901) We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for? Common English Bible Our sister is small; she has no breasts. What will we do for our sister on the day that she is spoken for? Catholic Public Domain Version A multitude of waters cannot extinguish love, nor can a river overwhelm it. If a man were to give all the substance of his house in exchange for love, he would despise it as nothing. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to? |
Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.
I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who brings peace.
If she is a wall, we will build upon her a battlement of silver; but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
Then you will remember your ways, and be ashamed when I take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.
and grow up like a plant of the field.’ And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full maidenhood; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, is the cup of your sister Samaria;
and dash you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort,
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing beseeching him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
And he said to me, ‘Depart; for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’ ”
This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living oracles to give to us.
Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in case they speak against you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.