Song of Songs 1
Solomon’s Most Excellent Love Song.
The Beloved to Her Lover:
Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately!
For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.The fragrance of your colognes is delightful;
your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you!Draw me after you; let us hurry!
May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers! The Maidens to the Lover:We will rejoice and delight in you;
we will praise your love more than wine. The Beloved to Her Lover: How rightly the young women adore you!The Beloved to the Maidens:
I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem,
dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.Do not stare at me because I am dark,
for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!The Beloved to Her Lover:
Tell me, O you whom my heart loves,
where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions!The Lover to His Beloved:
If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds.The Lover to His Beloved:
O my beloved, you are like a mare
among Pharaoh’s stallions.Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments;
your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.We will make for you gold ornaments
studded with silver.The Beloved about Her Lover:
While the king was at his banqueting table,
my nard gave forth its fragrance.My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrh
spending the night between my breasts.My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms
in the vineyards of En-Gedi.The Lover to His Beloved:
Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved!
Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!The Beloved to Her Lover:
Oh, how handsome you are, my lover!
Oh, how delightful you are! The lush foliage is our canopied bed;the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber;
the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.