And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous, before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
Ecclesiastes 2:4 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards, 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I made great works; I built myself houses, I planted vineyards. American Standard Version (1901) I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards; Common English Bible I took on great projects: I built houses for myself, planted vineyards for myself. Catholic Public Domain Version I magnified my works. I built houses for myself, and I planted vineyards. English Standard Version 2016 I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. |
And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous, before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
Now Absalom had reared up for himself, in his lifetime, a pillar, which is in the king's valley. For he said: I have no son; and this shall be the monument of my name. And he called the pillar by is own name, and it is called the hand of Absalom, to this day.
There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father. Therefore I have sent thee presents of silver and gold: and I desire thee to come, and break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all that he desired, and was pleased to do,
And over the dressers of the vineyards was Semeias, a Romathite. And over the wine cellars, Zabdias, an Aphonite.
And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many cisterns, for he had much cattle both in the plains, and in the waste of the desert. He had also vineyards and dressers of vines in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he was a man that loved husbandry.
And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to the house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified: because the ark of the Lord came into it.
Behold thou art fair, O my love, behold thou art fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.
Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vineyard flourish, if the flowers be ready to bring forth fruits, if the pomegranates flourish: there will I give thee my breasts.
I WILL sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place.