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Song of Solomon 1

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

2 Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

5 I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

6 Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.

7 Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

8 If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

9 I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

10 Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.

11 We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.

12 While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.

13 As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

14 My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

15 See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.

16 See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.

17 Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.

Good News Translation GNT

1 The most beautiful of songs, by Solomon.

2 Your lips cover me with kisses; your love is better than wine.

3 There is a fragrance about you; the sound of your name recalls it. No woman could keep from loving you.

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!

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.

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.

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?

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.

9 You, my love, excite men as a mare excites the stallions of Pharaoh's chariots.

10 Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks and falls along your neck like jewels.

11 But we will make for you a chain of gold with ornaments of silver.

12 My king was lying on his couch, and my perfume filled the air with fragrance.

13 My lover has the scent of myrrh as he lies upon my breasts.

14 My lover is like the wild flowers that bloom in the vineyards at Engedi.

15 How beautiful you are, my love; how your eyes shine with love!

16 How handsome you are, my dearest; how you delight me! The green grass will be our bed;

17 the cedars will be the beams of our house, and the cypress trees the ceiling.