ABP - Song of Solomon - 1

1:1  A song of songs which is to Solomon.

1:2  Let him kiss me by kisses of his mouth! for [2are good 1your breasts] over wine.

1:3  And the scent of your perfumes -- [2is over 3all 4the 5aromatics 6of perfume 7being emptied out 1your name]; on account of this the young women loved you.

1:4  They drew me; [2after 3you 4for 5the scent 6of your perfumes 1we will run]. [3carried 4me 1The 2king] into his inner chamber. We should exult and be glad in you. We shall love your breasts over wine. Uprightness loved you.

1:5  [2black 1I am] and fair, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the hide coverings of Solomon.

1:6  You should not look, for I am being blackened, for [3looked over 4me 1the 2sun]. Sons of my mother quarreled with me. They made me keeper in the vineyards. [3vineyard 2my own 1I kept not].

1:7  Report to me! you whom [2loved 1my soul], where you tend, where you bed at midday; lest at any time I should become as one being covered by a veil by the herds of your companions!

1:8  If you should not know yourself, O fair one among women, come forth at the heels of the flocks, and tend your kids by the tents of the shepherds!

1:9  To my horse among the chariots of Pharaoh, I likened you, my dear one.

1:10  How [2are beautiful 1your cheeks] as a turtle-dove; your neck as pendants.

1:11  Representations of gold we will make for you with marks of silver.

1:12  Until of which time the king was at his laying down, my spikenard gave its scent.

1:13  [2is a bundle 3of balsam 1My beloved man] to me; [2between 3my breasts 1he shall be lodged].

1:14  A cluster of camphor is my beloved man to me in vineyards of En-gedi.

1:15  Behold, you are fair my dear one; behold, you are fair; your eyes are as the doves.

1:16  Behold, you are fair, my beloved man; and indeed beautiful to [3bed 1our 2shady].

1:17  Beams of our houses are cedars; our fretworks cypresses.