1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;

for your love is better than wine.

3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance.

Your name is oil poured out,

therefore the virgins love you.

4 Take me away with you.

Let’s hurry.

The king has brought me into his rooms.

We will be glad and rejoice in you.

We will praise your love more than wine!

They are right to love you.

5 I am dark, but lovely,

you daughters of Jerusalem,

like Kedar’s tents,

like Solomon’s curtains.

6 Don’t stare at me because I am dark,

because the sun has scorched me.

My mother’s sons were angry with me.

They made me keeper of the vineyards.

I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves,

where you graze your flock,

where you rest them at noon;

for why should I be as one who is veiled

beside the flocks of your companions?

8 If you don’t know, most beautiful among women,

follow the tracks of the sheep.

Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

9 I have compared you, my love,

to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.

10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,

your neck with strings of jewels.

11 We will make you earrings of gold,

with studs of silver.

12 While the king sat at his table,

my perfume spread its fragrance.

13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh,

that lies between my breasts.

14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms

from the vineyards of En Gedi.

15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love.

Behold, you are beautiful.

Your eyes are like doves.

16 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant;

and our couch is verdant.

17 The beams of our house are cedars.

Our rafters are firs.

1 The song of songs, which [is] of Solomon.

2 Oh! if he would kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! for thy love [is] better than wine.

3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments (ointment poured forth [is] thy name), therefore have the virgins loved thee.

4 Draw me after thee, we will run. The king has brought me into his chambers; we will be glad and rejoice in thee; we will remember thy love more than the wine; the upright love thee.

5 I [am] dark, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, more desirable as the booths of Kedar as the tents of Solomon.

6 Do not look upon me because I [am] dark because the sun has looked upon me; my mother's sons were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards, [but] I have not kept my own vineyard.

7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loves, where thou dost feed, where thou dost make [thy flock] to rest at noon; for why did I have to be as a wanderer after the flocks of thy companions?

8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go forth, following the footprints of the flock and feed thy little female goats beside the booths of the shepherds.

9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a mare of the chariots of Pharaoh.

10 Thy cheeks are beautiful between the earrings, thy neck between the necklaces.

11 We will make thee earrings of gold with studs of silver.

12 While the king [was] on his couch, my spikenard gave forth its fragrance.

13 A bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved unto me [that] rests between my breasts.

14 My beloved [is] unto me [as] a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

15 Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes.

16 Behold, thou [art] fair, O my beloved, and pleasant; also our bed [has] flowers.

17 The beams of our house [are] cedar, [and] our rafters of fir.: