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Song of Solomon

1The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.

Colloquy of Bride and Friends

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 perfume poured out;
   therefore the maidens love you.
⁴ Draw me after you, let us make haste.
   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 black and beautiful,
   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 gazed on 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 is veiled
   beside the flocks of your companions?

⁸ If you do not know,
   O fairest among women,
follow the tracks of the flock,
   and pasture your kids
   beside the shepherds’ tents.

Colloquy of Bridegroom, Friends, and Bride

⁹ I compare you, my love,
   to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
¹⁰ Your cheeks are comely with ornaments,
   your neck with strings of jewels.
¹¹ We will make you 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 bag of myrrh
   that lies between my breasts.
¹⁴ My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
   in the vineyards of En-gedi.

¹⁵ Ah, you are beautiful, my love;
   ah, you are beautiful;
   your eyes are doves.
¹⁶ Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved,
   truly lovely.
Our couch is green;
¹⁷   the beams of our house are cedar,
   our rafters^* are pine.