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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.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 Shir HaShirim, which is Sh’lomo’s

2 Let him kiss me with the neshikot (kisses) of his mouth; for better is dodecha (thy love) than yayin (wine).

3 Tovim is the fragrance of thy shmanim (ointments); thy shem (name) is like shemen (ointment) poured forth; therefore do the alamot love thee [alamot, young unmarried virgins; pl of almah virgin; see Shir HaShirim 6:8; Yeshayah 7:14; Bereshis 24:43; Shemot 2:8; Mishlei 30:19, where the word has this explicit or implicit meaning throughout the Tanakh; see page vii].

4 Draw me; so will we run after thee; the Melech hath brought me into his chadarim (chambers); we will be glad and rejoice in thee; we will extol dodecha (thy love) more than yayin; uprightly have they loved thee.

5 Shechorah (black, dark, sun-blackened) am I, yet lovely, O ye banot Yerushalayim, like the oholim (tents) of Kedar, like the curtains of Sh’lomo.

6 Let your eyes burn not into me because I am black, because the shemesh hath burned its eyes into me; bnei immi (my step-brothers) were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the kramim (vineyards); but mine own kerem (vineyard) have I not kept.

7 O tell me, thou whom my nefesh loveth, where feedest thou? Where makest thou thy flock to lie down at noon? For why should I be as one who veils herself among the edrei chaverecha (the flocks of thy chaverim, fellow companions)?

8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among nashim, go thy way forth by the footprints of the tzon, and feed thy young goats beside the mishkenot haro’im (the tents of the shepherds).

9 O my love, to a susah (mare) among the chariots of Pharaoh do I compare thee.

10 Thy cheeks are lovely with ornaments, thy tzavar (neck) with necklaces.

11 Ornaments of zahav will we make for thee, studded with kesef.

12 While the Melech is at his table, my spikenard perfume has yielded its fragrance.

13 Dodi (my beloved) is to me a sachet of myrrh that lieth in my bosom.

14 Dodi (my beloved) is to me as a cluster of henna blooms in the kramim (vineyards) of Ein-Gedi.

15 See, thou art yafeh (fair), my love; see, thou art fair; thine eynayim are yonim (doves).

16 See, thou art yafeh (handsome), dodi (my beloved), yea, na’im (pleasing); also our couch is verdant.

17 The beams of our bais are cedar, and our rafters are cypress.