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Song of Solomon 1

Revised Standard Version RSV

1 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,

3 your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out; therefore the maidens love you.

4 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.

5 I am very dark, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

6 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!

7 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?

8 If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your kids beside the shepherds' tents.

9 I compare you, my love, to a mare of Pharaoh's chariots.

10 Your cheeks are comely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

11 We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.

12 While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.

13 My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Enge'di.

15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.

16 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely. Our couch is green;

17 the beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine.

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.