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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I am very dark, but 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 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! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11We will make for you ornaments of gold, studded with silver. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh that lies 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 Engedi. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17the beams of our house are cedar; our rafters are pine. |
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