Song of Solomon 1 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 - - - The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. Solomon’s Song of Songs.
2 <V 1:1>Bride: <font color=#0000CC>May he kiss me with the kiss of his mouth.</font> <V 1:2>Groom to Bride: <font color=#CC0000>So much better than wine are your breasts, fragranced with the finest perfumes.</font> Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth— for your love is more delightful than wine.
3 Bride to Groom: <font color=#0000CC>Your name is oil that has been poured out; therefore, the maidens have loved you. Draw me forward.</font> your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the young women love you!
4 Chorus to Bride: <font color=#008800>We will run after you in the odor of your perfumes.</font> <V 1:5>Bride to Chorus: <font color=#0000CC>The king has led me into his storerooms.</font> <V 1:6>Chorus to Bride: <font color=#008800>We will exult and rejoice in you, remembering your breasts above wine.</font> <V 1:7>Groom to Bride: <font color=#CC0000>The righteous love you.</font> Draw 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. Take 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 Bride to Chorus: <font color=#0000CC>O daughters of Jerusalem: I am black, but shapely, like the tabernacles of Kedar, like the tents of Solomon.</font> I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Dark am I, yet lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon.
6 <font color=#0000CC>Do not be concerned that I am dark, for the sun has changed my color.</font> <V 1:10><font color=#0000CC>The sons of my mother have fought against me. They have made me the keeper of the vineyards. My own vineyard I have not kept.</font> Do 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! Do 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 Bride to Groom: <font color=#0000CC>Reveal to me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture, where you recline at midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of your companions.</font> Tell 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? Tell 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 Groom to Bride: <font color=#CC0000>If you yourself do not know, O most beautiful among women, then go out and follow after the steps of the flocks, and pasture your young goats beside the tabernacles of the shepherds.</font> If 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. If 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 <font color=#CC0000>O my love, I have compared you to my company of horsemen against the chariots of Pharaoh.</font> I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. I liken you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariot horses.
10 <font color=#CC0000>Your cheeks are beautiful, like those of a turtledove. Your neck is like a bejeweled collar.</font> Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels. Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
11 Chorus to Bride: <font color=#008800>We will fashion for you chains of gold, accented with reddened silver.</font> We will make for you ornaments of gold, studded with silver. We will make you earrings of gold, studded with silver.
12 Bride to Chorus: <font color=#0000CC>While the king was taking his rest, my aromatic ointment sent forth its odor.</font> While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance. While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
13 <font color=#0000CC>My beloved is a bundle of myrrh to me. He shall abide between my breasts.</font> My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh that lies between my breasts. My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
14 <font color=#0000CC>My beloved is a cluster of Cyprus grapes to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.</font> My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi. My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.
15 Groom to Bride: <font color=#CC0000>Behold, you are beautiful, O my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are those of a dove.</font> Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves. How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves.
16 Bride to Groom: <font color=#0000CC>Behold, you are handsome, O my beloved, and graceful. Our bed is flourishing.</font> Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green; How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant.
17 Groom to Bride: <font color=#CC0000>The timbers of our houses are of cedar; our ceilings are of cypress.</font> the beams of our house are cedar; our rafters are pine. The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are firs.
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