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1 The song of songs, which is Solomon's.
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Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine,
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
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Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.
3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
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Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments.
4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
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The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the righteous love thee.
5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
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(1-4) I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
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(1-5) Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.
7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
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(1-6) Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.
8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.
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(1-7) If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and follow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents of the shepherds.
9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
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(1-8) To my company of horsemen, in Pharao’s chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.
10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
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(1-9) Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove’s, thy neck as jewels.
11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
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(1-10) We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.
12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
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(1-11) While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.
13 A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
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(1-12) A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts.
14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
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(1-13) A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.
15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
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(1-14) Behold thou are fair, O my love, behold thou are fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.
16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
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(1-15) Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.
17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
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(1-16) The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.
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