Song of Songs 1
1 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.
3 The fragrance of your perfumes is pleasant; your name is perfume poured out. That is why the young women love you.
4 Take me with you; let’s run! The king has brought me into his chambers. Let’s rejoice and delight in you; let’s remember your love more than wine. How rightly they love you.
5 I am dark and beautiful, daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like Solomon’s curtains.
6 Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has burned me. My mother’s sons were angry with me and made me keeper of the vineyards. My own vineyard I did not keep.
7 Tell me, you whom I love: Where do you pasture your flock? Where do you make it lie down at noon? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
8 If you don’t know, fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock and pasture your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
9 I have compared you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
10 Your cheeks are lovely among the ornaments, and your neck among the strings of beads.
11 We will make you ornaments of gold with silver beads.
12 While the king is at his table, my nard gives off its fragrance.
13 My beloved is a sachet of myrrh to me, spending the night between my breasts.
14 My beloved is a cluster of henna blossoms to me, among the vineyards of En-gedi.
15 How beautiful you are, my darling! How beautiful! Your eyes are doves.
16 How handsome you are, my beloved, and how pleasant! Our bed is lush with greenery.
17 The beams of our house are cedars, and our ceiling is cypresses.
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