Cânticos 1

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 are*Song 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.