Geneva1599 - Song of Solomon - 1

1:1  Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy loue is better then wine.

1:2  Because of the sauour of thy good ointments thy name is as an ointment powred out: therefore the virgins loue thee.

1:3  Drawe me: we will runne after thee: the King hath brought me into his chabers: we will reioyce and be glad in thee: we will remember thy loue more then wine: the righteous do loue thee.

1:4  I am blacke, O daughters of Ierusalem, but comely, as the tentes of Kedar, and as the curtaines of Salomon.

1:5  Regard ye me not because I am blacke: for the sunne hath looked vpon mee. The sonnes of my mother were angry against mee: they made me the keeper of ye vines: but I kept not mine owne vine.

1:6  Shewe me, O thou, whome my soule loueth, where thou feedest, where thou liest at noone: for why should I be as she that turneth aside to the flockes of thy companions?

1:7  If thou knowe not, O thou the fairest among women, get thee foorth by the steps of the flocke, and feede thy kiddes by the tents of the shepheards.

1:8  I haue compared thee, O my loue, to the troupe of horses in the charets of Pharaoh.

1:9  Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of stones, and thy necke with chaines.

1:10  We will make thee borders of golde with studdes of siluer.

1:11  Whiles the King was at his repast, my spikenard gaue the smelll thereof.

1:12  My welbeloued is as a bundle of myrrhe vnto me: he shall lie betweene my breasts.

1:13  My welbeloued is as a cluster of camphire vnto me in the vines of Engedi.

1:14  My loue, beholde, thou art faire: beholde, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues.

1:15  My welbeloued, beholde, thou art faire and pleasant: also our bed is greene:

1:16  The beames of our house are cedars, our rafters are of firre.