Jubilee2000 - Song of Solomon - 1

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

1:2  Oh! if he would kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! for thy love [is] better than wine.

1:3  Because of the savour of thy good ointments (ointment poured forth [is] thy name), therefore have the virgins loved thee.

1:4  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.

1:5  I [am] dark, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, more desirable as the booths of Kedar as the tents of Solomon.

1:6  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.

1:7  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?

1:8  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.

1:9  I have compared thee, O my love, to a mare of the chariots of Pharaoh.

1:10  Thy cheeks are beautiful between the earrings, thy neck between the necklaces.

1:11  We will make thee earrings of gold with studs of silver.

1:12  While the king [was] on his couch, my spikenard gave forth its fragrance.

1:13  A bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved unto me [that] rests between my breasts.

1:14  My beloved [is] unto me [as] a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

1:15  Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes.

1:16  Behold, thou [art] fair, O my beloved, and pleasant; also our bed [has] flowers.

1:17  The beams of our house [are] cedar, [and] our rafters of fir.: