Song of Solomon 1
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1Solomon's Most Excellent Love Song. 1The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
2Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine. 2"May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.
3The fragrance of your colognes is delightful; your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you! 3"Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is like purified oil; Therefore the maidens love you.
4Draw me after you; let us hurry! May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers! The Maidens to the Lover: We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. The Beloved to Her Lover: How rightly the young women adore you! 4"Draw me after you and let us run together! The king has brought me into his chambers." "We will rejoice in you and be glad; We will extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you."
5I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah. 5"I am black but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, Like the tents of Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon.
6Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep! 6"Do not stare at me because I am swarthy, For the sun has burned me. My mother's sons were angry with me; They made me caretaker of the vineyards, But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.
7Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions! 7"Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, Where do you pasture your flock, Where do you make it lie down at noon? For why should I be like one who veils herself Beside the flocks of your companions?"
8If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds. 8"If you yourself do not know, Most beautiful among women, Go forth on the trail of the flock And pasture your young goats By the tents of the shepherds.
9The Lover to His Beloved: O my beloved, you are like a mare among Pharaoh's stallions. 9"To me, my darling, you are like My mare among the chariots of Pharaoh.
10Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels. 10"Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, Your neck with strings of beads."
11We will make for you gold ornaments studded with silver. 11"We will make for you ornaments of gold With beads of silver."
12While the king was at his banqueting table, my nard gave forth its fragrance. 12"While the king was at his table, My perfume gave forth its fragrance.
13My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrh spending the night between my breasts. 13"My beloved is to me a pouch of myrrh Which lies all night between my breasts.
14My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-Gedi. 14"My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms In the vineyards of Engedi."
15Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves! 15"How beautiful you are, my darling, How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves."
16Oh, how handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how delightful you are! The lush foliage is our canopied bed; 16"How handsome you are, my beloved, And so pleasant! Indeed, our couch is luxuriant!
17the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom. 17"The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters, cypresses.
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