Protestantism
English
¶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?
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?
We have a little sister, and breasts she hath not, What do we do for our sister, In the day that it is told of her?
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? —
Wee haue a litle sister, and she hath no breastes: what shall we do for our sister when she shalbe spoken for?
We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?
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?
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?
We have a little sister, and she [still] has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
¶ 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?
⌞We have a little sister⌟,1 ⌞and she does not yet have any breasts⌟.2 What should we do for our sister ⌞on the day when she is betrothed⌟?34
- Literally “a little sister for us”
- Literally “and there is no breast for her”
- Literally “on the day when it is spoken of her”
- Or “on the day when she is spoken for”
We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day she shall be spoken for?
We have a little sister, and she has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?
We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?
We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?
[Br.] We have a sister who is yet young; She is yet without breasts. What shall we do with our sister, When she shall be spoken for?
¶ 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?
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?
[THEY] A sister, have we, a little one, and, breasts, hath she none, What shall we do for our sister, in the day when she may be spoken for?
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?
We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
Catholicism
English
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?
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.12
- 8:8A man who gives up everything for love counts all that he gave up as if it were nothing. +A man who gives up everything for the love of God counts all that he gave up as if it were nothing.(Conte)
- 8:8Our sister is little, etc: Mystically signifies the Jews, who are to be spoken to: that is, converted towards the end of the world: and then shall become a wall, that is, a part of the building, the church of Christ.(Challoner)