Song of Solomon 1

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1. 1This is the Song of Songs, written by Solomon.
2. 2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth — your love is sweeter than wine.
3. 3The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing. Your name is like perfume poured out, so the young women love you.
4. 4Draw me, we will run after you. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in you; we will remember your love more than wine. The upright love you.
5. 5I am black but beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
6. 6Don't look at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but I have not kept my own vineyard.
7. 7Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon. For why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of your companions?
8. 8If you don't know, most beautiful of women, just follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.
9. 9My love, I compare you to a mare among Pharaoh's chariot horses.
10. 10Your cheeks are lovely with rows of jewels, and your neck with chains of gold.
11. 11We will make you ornaments of gold with studs of silver.
12. 12While the king sat at his table, my spikenard released its fragrance.
13. 13My beloved is like a bundle of myrrh to me; he will lie between my breasts all night.
14. 14My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.
15. 15How beautiful you are, my love! How beautiful you are; you have doves' eyes.
16. 16How handsome you are, my beloved — how wonderful! The green grass is our bed.
17. 17Cedar beams hold up our house, and fir trees form our rafters.