Song of Solomon 1:1-8 ▼

1 The Song of Songs that is of Solomon.

2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.

3 Your oils are good for fragrance; your name is oil poured out; upon thus the maidens love you.

4 Draw me after you, let us run! The king has brought me into his chambers. We will rejoice and will be glad in you; we will cause your love to be remembered more than wine; rightly do they love you.

5 Black am I, and lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

6 Do not look at me because I am black, for the sun has gazed upon me. The sons of my mother were hot with me; they set me keeping the vineyards; my own vineyard I have not kept.

7 Declare to me, O one my soul loves, where do you pasture, where do you let them rest at midday? For why should I be as one veiling herself to go alongside the flocks of your companions?

8 If you do not know it for yourself, O fairest among the women, go forth yourself in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the tents of the shepherds.