Song of Solomon1
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1The Song of Songs, which is for Solomon.Maiden’s Soliloquy
2⸤May you kiss me⸥ ⸤passionately with your lips⸥, for your love is better than wine. 3As fragrance, ⸤your perfumes⸥ are ⸤delightful⸥; your name is poured out ⸤perfume⸥; therefore young women love you.4Draw me after you, let us run!May the king bring me into his chambers! Let us be joyful and let us rejoice in you;let us extol your love more than wine.Rightly do they love you!Maiden’s Self-Description
5I am black but beautiful, ⸤O maidens of Jerusalem⸥, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.6Do not gaze at me because I am black, because the sun has stared at me.The sons of my mother were angry with me;they made me keeper of the vineyards,but my own “vineyard” I did not keep.Dialogue between Shepherdess and Shepherd
7Tell me, you whom my ⸤heart⸥ loves,where do you pasture your flock,where do your sheep lie down at the noon?⸤For why should I be like⸥ one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?8If you do not know, O fairest among women,follow ⸤the tracks⸥ of the flock,and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds.Man’s Poetic Praise of His Beloved
9To a mare among the chariots of Pharaoh,I compare you, my beloved.10Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments,your neck with strings of jewels.11We will make ornaments of gold for youwith studs of silver.Maiden’s Poetic Praise of Her Beloved
12While the king was on his couch,my nard gave its fragrance.13My beloved is to me ⸤a pouch⸥ of myrrh,he spends the night between my breasts.14My beloved is to me a cluster of blossoms of hennain the vineyards of En Gedi.Mutual Admiration
15Look! You are beautiful, my beloved.Look! You are beautiful;your eyes are doves.16Look! You are beautiful, my beloved,truly pleasant.Truly our couch is ⸤verdant⸥; 17the beams of our house are cedar;our rafter is cypress.Logos Bible Software