Song of Solomon, 1
1. Solomon's Song of Songs:
1. The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
2. BELOVED: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love-making is sweeter than wine;
2. O that you would kiss me with the kisses of your mouth! For your love is better than wine,
3. delicate is the fragrance of your perfume, your name is an oil poured out, and that is why girls love you.
3. your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out; therefore the maidens love you.
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.
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. BELOVED: I am black but lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the pavilions of Salmah.
5. I am very dark, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
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!
6. Do not gaze at me because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched 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 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.
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 wanders beside the flocks of your companions?
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.
8. If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your kids beside the shepherds' tents.
9. LOVER: I compare you, my love, to my mare harnessed to Pharaoh's chariot.
9. I compare you, my love, to a mare of Pharaoh's chariots.
10. Your cheeks show fair between their pendants and your neck within its necklaces.
10. Your cheeks are comely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
11. We shall make you golden earrings and beads of silver.
11. We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.
12. DUO: -While the king rests in his own room my nard yields its perfume.
12. While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.
13. My love is a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts.
13. My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
14. My love is a cluster of henna flowers among the vines of En-Gedi.
14. My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Enge'di.
15. -How beautiful you are, my beloved, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are doves.
15. Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.
16. -How beautiful you are, my love, and how you delight me! Our bed is the greensward.
16. Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely. Our couch is green;
17. -The beams of our house are cedar trees, its panelling the cypress.
17. the beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine.
