1:1 The most beautiful of songs, by Solomon. |
1:2 Your lips cover me with kisses; your love is better than wine. |
1:3 There is a fragrance about you; the sound of your name recalls it. No woman could keep from loving you. |
1:4 Take me with you, and we'll run away; be my king and take me to your room. We will be happy together, drink deep, and lose ourselves in love. No wonder all women love you! |
1:5 Women of Jerusalem, I am dark but beautiful, dark as the desert tents of Kedar, but beautiful as the draperies in Solomon's palace. |
1:6 Don't look down on me because of my color, because the sun has tanned me. My brothers were angry with me and made me work in the vineyard. I had no time to care for myself. |
1:7 Tell me, my love, Where will you lead your flock to graze? Where will they rest from the noonday sun? Why should I need to look for you among the flocks of the other shepherds? |
1:8 Don't you know the place, loveliest of women? Go and follow the flock; find pasture for your goats near the tents of the shepherds. |
1:9 You, my love, excite men as a mare excites the stallions of Pharaoh's chariots. |
1:10 Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks and falls along your neck like jewels. |
1:11 But we will make for you a chain of gold with ornaments of silver. |
1:12 My king was lying on his couch, and my perfume filled the air with fragrance. |
1:13 My lover has the scent of myrrh as he lies upon my breasts. |
1:14 My lover is like the wild flowers that bloom in the vineyards at Engedi. |
1:15 How beautiful you are, my love; how your eyes shine with love! |
1:16 How handsome you are, my dearest; how you delight me! The green grass will be our bed; |
1:17 the cedars will be the beams of our house, and the cypress trees the ceiling. |