Song of Solomon 1:1-8 ▼

1 The Song of Songs, that [is] of Solomon.

2 Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, || For better [are] your loves than wine.

3 For fragrance [are] your good perfumes. Perfume emptied out—your name, || Therefore have virgins loved you!

4 Draw me: we run after you, || The king has brought me into his inner chambers, || We delight and rejoice in you, || We mention your loves more than wine, || Uprightly they have loved you!

5 I [am] dark and lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, as tents of Kedar, as curtains of Solomon.

6 Do not fear me, because I [am] very dark, || Because the sun has scorched me, || The sons of my mother were angry with me, || They made me keeper of the vineyards, || My vineyard—my own—I have not kept.

7 Declare to me, you whom my soul has loved, || Where you delight, || Where you lie down at noon, || For why am I as one veiled, || By the ranks of your companions?

8 If you do not know, || O beautiful among women, || Go forth by the traces of the flock, || And feed your kids by the shepherds’ dwellings!