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Chapter 1
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This is Solomon's song of songs, more wonderful than any other.
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Kiss me and kiss me again,
for your love is sweeter than wine.
- How pleasing is your fragrance;
your name is like the spreading fragrance of scented oils.
No wonder all the young women love you!
- Take me with you; come, let's run!
The king has brought me into his bedroom.
How happy we are for you, O king.
We praise your love even more than wine.
How right they are to adore you.
- I am dark but beautiful,
O women of Jerusalem-- dark as the tents of Kedar,
dark as the curtains of Solomon's tents.
- Don't stare at me because I am dark--
the sun has darkened my skin.
My brothers were angry with me;
they forced me to care for their vineyards, so I couldn't care for myself--my own vineyard.
- Tell me, my love, where are you leading your flock today?
Where will you rest your sheep at noon? For why should I wander like a prostitute
among your friends and their flocks?
- If you don't know, O most beautiful woman,
follow the trail of my flock,
and graze your young goats by the shepherds' tents.
- You are as exciting, my darling,
as a mare among Pharaoh's stallions.
- How lovely are your cheeks;
your earrings set them afire! How lovely is your neck,
enhanced by a string of jewels.
- We will make for you earrings of gold
and beads of silver.
- The king is lying on his couch,
enchanted by the fragrance of my perfume.
- My lover is like a sachet of myrrh
lying between my breasts.
- He is like a bouquet of sweet henna blossoms
from the vineyards of En-gedi.
- How beautiful you are, my darling,
how beautiful!
Your eyes are like doves.
- You are so handsome, my love,
pleasing beyond words! The soft grass is our bed;
- fragrant cedar branches are the beams of our house,
and pleasant smelling firs are the rafters.