Solomon’s Love for a Shulamite Girl
1 The 1 Kin. 4:32song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
The Banquet
The Shulamite
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—
Song 4:10For your love is better than wine.
3 Because of the fragrance of your good ointments,
Your name is ointment poured forth;
Therefore the virgins love you.
4 Hos. 11:4; John 6:44; 12:32Draw me away!
The Daughters of Jerusalem
Phil. 3:12–14We will run after you.
The Shulamite
The king Ps. 45:14, 15; John 14:2; Eph. 2:6has brought me into his chambers.
The Daughters of Jerusalem
We will be glad and rejoice in you.
We will remember your love more than wine.
The Shulamite
Rightly do they love you.
5 I am dark, but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
Like the tents of Kedar,
Like the curtains of Solomon.
6 Do not look upon me, because I am dark,
Because the sun has tanned me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;
They made me the keeper of the vineyards,
But my own Song 8:11, 12vineyard I have not kept.
(To Her Beloved)
7 Tell me, O you whom I love,
Where you feed yourflock,
Where you make it rest at noon.
For why should I be as one who veils herself
By the flocks of your companions?
The Beloved
8 If you do not know, Song 5:9O fairest among women,
Follow in the footsteps of the flock,
And feed your little goats
Beside the shepherds’ tents.
9 I have compared you, Song 2:2, 10, 13; 4:1, 7; John 15:14my love,
2 Chr. 1:16To my filly among Pharaoh’s chariots.
10 Ezek. 16:11Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,
Your neck with chains ofgold.
The Daughters of Jerusalem
11 We will make you ornaments of gold
With studs of silver.
The Shulamite
12 While the king is at his table,
My spikenard sends forth its fragrance.
13 A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me,
That lies all night between my breasts.
14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blooms
In the vineyards of En Gedi.
The Beloved
15 Song 4:1; 5:12Behold, you are fair, my love!
Behold, you are fair!
You have dove’s eyes.
The Shulamite
16 Behold, you areSong 5:10–16handsome, my beloved!
Yes, pleasant!
Also our bed is green.
17 The beams of our houses are cedar,
And our rafters of fir.