Song of Solomon 1:1-8 (Revised Standard Version)
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The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
2
O that you would kiss me with the kisses of your mouth! For your love is better than wine,
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your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out; therefore the maidens love you.
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Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.
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I am very dark, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
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Do not gaze at me because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but, my own vineyard I have not kept!
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Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who wanders beside the flocks of your companions?
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If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your kids beside the shepherds' tents.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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