Song of Solomon 1
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1The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.1Solomon's Most Excellent Love Song.
2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;2Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.
3your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.3The fragrance of your colognes is delightful; your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you!
4Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. Others We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.4Draw me after you; let us hurry! May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers! The Maidens to the Lover: We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. The Beloved to Her Lover: How rightly the young women adore you!
5I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.5I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.
6Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!6Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!
7Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?7Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions!
8If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.8If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds.
9I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.9The Lover to His Beloved: O my beloved, you are like a mare among Pharaoh's stallions.
10Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.10Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.
11We will make for you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.11We will make for you gold ornaments studded with silver.
12While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.12While the king was at his banqueting table, my nard gave forth its fragrance.
13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh that lies between my breasts.13My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrh spending the night between my breasts.
14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi.14My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-Gedi.
15Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.15Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!
16Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green;16Oh, how handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how delightful you are! The lush foliage is our canopied bed;
17the beams of our house are cedar; our rafters are pine.17the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.
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