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 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

The Bride Confesses Her Love

² Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
For your love is better than wine;
³     your anointing oils are fragrant;
your name is oil poured out;
therefore virgins love you.
⁴ Draw me after you; let us run.
The king has brought me into his chambers.

We will exult and rejoice in you;
we will extol your love more than wine;
rightly do they love you.

⁵ I am very dark, but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
like the tents of Kedar,
like the curtains of Solomon.
⁶ 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!
⁷ 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?

Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other

⁸ 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.

⁹ I compare you, my love,
to a mare among Pharaoh's chariots.
¹⁰ Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,
your neck with strings of jewels.

¹¹ We will make for you^[b]ornaments of gold,
studded with silver.

¹² While the king was on his couch,
my nard gave forth its fragrance.
¹³ My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh
that lies between my breasts.
¹⁴ My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
in the vineyards of Engedi.

¹⁵ Behold, you are beautiful, my love;
behold, you are beautiful;
your eyes are doves.

¹⁶ Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful.
Our couch is green;
¹⁷     the beams of our house are cedar;
our rafters are pine.

Footnotes:

1. Song of Solomon 1:2 The translators have added speaker identifications based on the gender and number of the Hebrew words
2. Song of Solomon 1:11 The Hebrew for you is feminine singular

Cross references:

1. Song of Solomon 1:1 : 1 Kgs. 4:32
2. Song of Solomon 1:2 : ch. 4:10
3. Song of Solomon 1:3 : [Luke 7:46; John 12:3]
4. Song of Solomon 1:3 : Eccles. 7:1
5. Song of Solomon 1:4 : [Hos. 11:4; John 6:44; 12:32]
6. Song of Solomon 1:4 : Ps. 119:32; See Phil. 3:12-14
7. Song of Solomon 1:4 : Ps. 45:14, 15; [ch. 2:4; John 14:2; Eph. 2:6]
8. Song of Solomon 1:4 : Ps. 9:2; 45:15
9. Song of Solomon 1:4 : [See ver. 2 above]; ch. 4:10
10. Song of Solomon 1:5 : ch. 2:14; 4:3; 6:4
11. Song of Solomon 1:5 : ch. 2:7; 3:5, 10, 11; 5:8, 16; 8:4; Luke 23:28
12. Song of Solomon 1:5 : Ps. 120:5
13. Song of Solomon 1:5 : Isa. 60:7
14. Song of Solomon 1:6 : [Ps. 69:8]
15. Song of Solomon 1:6 : Job 27:18; Prov. 27:18
16. Song of Solomon 1:6 : ch. 8:11, 12
17. Song of Solomon 1:6 : [1 Cor. 9:27]
18. Song of Solomon 1:7 : See ch. 3:1-4
19. Song of Solomon 1:7 : ch. 2:16; 6:3; [Ps. 23:1-3; Ezek. 34:14, 15]
20. Song of Solomon 1:7 : [Isa. 13:20; Jer. 33:12]
21. Song of Solomon 1:7 : ch. 8:13
22. Song of Solomon 1:8 : ch. 5:9; 6:1
23. Song of Solomon 1:9 : See ver. 15
24. Song of Solomon 1:9 : [2 Chr. 1:16, 17]
25. Song of Solomon 1:10 : [ch. 5:13]; See Ezek. 16:11-14
26. Song of Solomon 1:12 : [ver. 4]
27. Song of Solomon 1:12 : ch. 4:13, 14; [Mark 14:3; John 12:3]
28. Song of Solomon 1:13 : Ps. 45:8; [John 19:39]
29. Song of Solomon 1:14 : ch. 4:13
30. Song of Solomon 1:14 : 1 Sam. 23:29
31. Song of Solomon 1:15 : ch. 4:1
32. Song of Solomon 1:15 : [Ezek. 16:13]
33. Song of Solomon 1:15 : ver. 9; ch. 2:2, 10, 13; 4:1, 7; 5:2; 6:4
34. Song of Solomon 1:15 : ch. 4:1; 5:12
35. Song of Solomon 1:16 : ch. 2:3
36. Song of Solomon 1:16 : [2 Sam. 1:23, 26]
37. Song of Solomon 1:17 : Isa. 37:24; 60:13; Ezek. 31:8
38. Song of Solomon 1:17 : Isa. 37:24; 60:13; Ezek. 31:8