Song of Songs Chapter 1    

 ¹ The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

  Beloved

 ² Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth,

 for your love is better than wine.

 

 ³ Your oils have a pleasing fragrance.

 Your name is fragrant oil poured out,

 therefore the virgins love you.

 

 ⁴ Take me away with you. Let us hurry.

 The king has brought me into his rooms.

Friends

 We will be glad and rejoice in you.

 We will praise your love more than wine!
 

 They are right to love you.

  Beloved

 ⁵ I am dark but lovely,

 you daughters of Jerusalem,

 like the tents of Kedar, like Solomon’s curtains.

 

 ⁶ Do not stare at me because I am darkish,

 because the sun has looked upon me.

 My mother’s sons burned in anger about me.

 They made me a keeper of the vineyards.

 But my vineyard—the one that was mine—I have not kept.

 

 
⁷ Tell me, you whom my soul loves,

 where you graze your flock,

 where you rest them at noon;

 lest I become as one who covers herself

 beside the flocks of your companions?

  Lover

 ⁸ If you do not know,

 O most beautiful among women,

 follow the tracks of the sheep.

 Graze your young goats

 near the shepherds’ tents.

 

 
⁹ I compare you, my darling,

 to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

 

 ¹⁰ Your cheeks are beautiful with looped earrings,

 and your neck with strings of beads.

 

 ¹¹ We will make ornaments of gold for you

 studded with silver.

  Beloved

 ¹² While the king was reclining upon his dining-couch,

 my nard spread its fragrance.

 

 ¹³ My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh

 that lies all night between my breasts.

 

 ¹⁴ My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms

 in the vineyards of En-gedi.

  Lover

 ¹⁵ Behold, you are beautiful, my darling.

 Behold, you are beautiful.

 Your eyes are doves.

  Beloved

 ¹⁶ Behold, you are handsome, my lover.

 O how pleasant,

 Indeed, lush foliage is our bed.

  Lover

 ¹⁷ The beams of our house are cedars.

 Our rafters are firs.