Song of Solomon, 1
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1. Solomon's Song of Songs:
2. Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth! More delightful is your love than wine!
2. BELOVED: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love-making is sweeter than wine;
3. Your name spoken is a spreading perfume- that is why the maidens love you.
3. delicate is the fragrance of your perfume, your name is an oil poured out, and that is why girls love you.
4. Draw me! - We will follow you eagerly! Bring me, O king, to your chambers. With you we rejoice and exult, we extol your love; it is beyond wine: how rightly you are loved!
4. Draw me in your footsteps, let us run. The king has brought me into his rooms; you will be our joy and our gladness. We shall praise your love more than wine; how right it is to love you.
5. I am as dark-but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem- As the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Salma.
5. BELOVED: I am black but lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the pavilions of Salmah.
6. Do not stare at me because I am swarthy, because the sun has burned me. My brothers have been angry with me; they charged me with the care of the vineyards: my own vineyard I have not cared for.
6. Take no notice of my dark colouring, it is the sun that has burnt me. My mother's sons turned their anger on me, they made me look after the vineyards. My own vineyard I had not looked after!
7. Tell me, you whom my heart loves, where you pasture your flock, where you give them rest at midday, Lest I be found wandering after the flocks of your companions.
7. Tell me then, sweetheart, where will you lead your flock to graze, where will you rest it at noon? That I may no more wander like a vagabond beside the flocks of your companions.
8. If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, Follow the tracks of the flock and pasture the young ones near the shepherds' camps.
8. CHORUS: If you do not know this, O loveliest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and take your kids to graze close by the shepherds' tents.
9. To the steeds of Pharaoh's chariots would I liken you, my beloved:
9. LOVER: I compare you, my love, to my mare harnessed to Pharaoh's chariot.
10. Your cheeks lovely in pendants, your neck in jewels.
10. Your cheeks show fair between their pendants and your neck within its necklaces.
11. We will make pendants of gold for you, and silver ornaments.
11. We shall make you golden earrings and beads of silver.
12. For the king's banquet my nard gives forth its fragrance.
12. DUO: -While the king rests in his own room my nard yields its perfume.
13. My lover is for me a sachet of myrrh to rest in my bosom.
13. My love is a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts.
14. My lover is for me a cluster of henna from the vineyards of Engedi.
14. My love is a cluster of henna flowers among the vines of En-Gedi.
15. Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved, ah, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves!
15. -How beautiful you are, my beloved, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are doves.
16. Ah, you are beautiful, my lover - yes, you are lovely. Our couch, too, is verdant;
16. -How beautiful you are, my love, and how you delight me! Our bed is the greensward.
17. the beams of our house are cedars, our rafters, cypresses.
17. -The beams of our house are cedar trees, its panelling the cypress.
