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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This is Solomon’s song of songs, more wonderful than any other. Young Woman |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Kiss me and kiss me again, for your love is sweeter than wine. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3How pleasing is your fragrance; your name is like the spreading fragrance of scented oils. No wonder all the young women love you! |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Take me with you; come, let’s run! The king has brought me into his bedroom. Young Women of Jerusalem How happy we are for you, O king. We praise your love even more than wine. Young Woman How right they are to adore you. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I am dark but beautiful, O women of Jerusalem— dark as the tents of Kedar, dark as the curtains of Solomon’s tents. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Don’t stare at me because I am dark— the sun has darkened my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they forced me to care for their vineyards, so I couldn’t care for myself—my own vineyard. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Tell me, my love, where are you leading your flock today? Where will you rest your sheep at noon? For why should I wander like a prostitute among your friends and their flocks? Young Man |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If you don’t know, O most beautiful woman, follow the trail of my flock, and graze your young goats by the shepherds’ tents. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9You are as exciting, my darling, as a mare among Pharaoh’s stallions. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10How lovely are your cheeks; your earrings set them afire! How lovely is your neck, enhanced by a string of jewels. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11We will make for you earrings of gold and beads of silver. Young Woman |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The king is lying on his couch, enchanted by the fragrance of my perfume. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13My lover is like a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He is like a bouquet of sweet henna blossoms from the vineyards of En-gedi. Young Man |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15How beautiful you are, my darling, how beautiful! Your eyes are like doves. Young Woman |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16You are so handsome, my love, pleasing beyond words! The soft grass is our bed; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17fragrant cedar branches are the beams of our house, and pleasant smelling firs are the rafters. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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