| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Study Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This is Solomon’s Song of Songs. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with beads of silver. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs. |
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