AB - Song of Solomon - 1

1:1  The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.

1:2  Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for your breasts are better than wine.

1:3  And the smell of your ointments is better than all spices: your name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love you.

1:4  They have drawn you: we will run after you, for the smell of your ointments: the king has brought me into his closet: let us rejoice and be glad in you; we will love your breasts more than wine: righteousness loves you.

1:5  I am dark, but beautiful, you daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

1:6  Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has looked unfavorably upon me: my mother's sons strove with me; they made me keeper in the vineyards; I have not kept my own vineyard.

1:7  Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you tend your flock, where you cause them to rest at noon, lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of your companions.

1:8  If you know not yourself, you fair one among women, go forth by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed your little goats by the shepherd's tents.

1:9  I have likened you, my companion, to my horses in the chariots of Pharaoh.

1:10  How beautiful are your cheeks, as those of a dove, your neck as chains!

1:11  We will make you figures of gold with studs of silver.

1:12  So long as the king was at table, my spikenard gave forth its smell.

1:13  My kinsman is to me a bundle of myrrh; he shall lie between my breasts.

1:14  My kinsman is to me a cluster of camphor in the vineyards of En Gedi.

1:15  Behold, you are fair, my companion; behold, you are fair; your eyes are doves.

1:16  Behold, you are fair, my kinsman, yea, beautiful, overshadowing our bed.

1:17  The beams of our house are cedars, our ceilings are of cypress.