CPDV - Song of Solomon - 1

1:1  Bride: May he kiss me with the kiss of his mouth.. Groom to Bride: So much better than wine are your breasts,

1:2  fragranced with the finest perfumes. Bride to Groom: Your name is oil that has been poured out; therefore, the maidens have loved you.

1:3  Draw me forward. Chorus to Bride: We will run after you in the odor of your perfumes. Bride to Chorus: The king has led me into his storerooms. Chorus to Bride: We will exult and rejoice in you, remembering your breasts above wine. Groom to Bride: The righteous love you.

1:4  Bride to Chorus: O daughters of Jerusalem: I am black, but shapely, like the tabernacles of Kedar, like the tents of Solomon.

1:5  Do not be concerned that I am dark, for the sun has changed my color. The sons of my mother have fought against me. They have made me the keeper of the vineyards. My own vineyard I have not kept.

1:6  Bride to Groom: Reveal to me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture, where you recline at midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of your companions.

1:7  Groom to Bride: If you yourself do not know, O most beautiful among women, then go out and follow after the steps of the flocks, and pasture your young goats beside the tabernacles of the shepherds.

1:8  O my love, I have compared you to my company of horsemen against the chariots of Pharaoh.

1:9  Your cheeks are beautiful, like those of a turtledove. Your neck is like a bejeweled collar.

1:10  Chorus to Bride: We will fashion for you chains of gold, accented with reddened silver.

1:11  Bride to Chorus: While the king was taking his rest, my aromatic ointment sent forth its odor.

1:12  My beloved is a bundle of myrrh to me. He shall abide between my breasts.

1:13  My beloved is a cluster of Cyprus grapes to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.

1:14  Groom to Bride: Behold, you are beautiful, O my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are those of a dove.

1:15  Bride to Groom: Behold, you are handsome, O my beloved, and graceful. Our bed is flourishing.

1:16  Groom to Bride: The timbers of our houses are of cedar; our ceilings are of cypress.