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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Solomon'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] | 3Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the young women love you! |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Take me away with you--let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. Friends We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. She How right they are to adore you! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Dark am I, yet lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My mother's sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I had to neglect. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats by the tents of the shepherds. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I liken you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh's chariot horses. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11We will make you earrings of gold, studded with 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 from the vineyards of En Gedi. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are firs. |
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