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Song of Solomon 1

CHAPTER 1 The Beloved Woman

1 A song of songs which is to Solomon. 2 Let him kiss me by kisses of his mouth! for [²are good ¹your breasts] over wine. 3 And the scent of your perfumes -- [²is over ³all ⁴the ⁵aromatics ⁶of perfume ⁷being emptied out ¹your name]; on account of this the young women loved you. 4 They drew me; [²after ³you ⁴for ⁵the scent ⁶of your perfumes ¹we will run]. [³carried ⁴me ¹The ²king] into his inner chamber. We should exult and be glad in you. We shall love your breasts over wine. Uprightness loved you. 5 [²black ¹I am] and fair, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the hide coverings of Solomon. 6 You should not look, for I am being blackened, for [³looked over ⁴me ¹the ²sun]. Sons of my mother quarreled with me. They made me keeper in the vineyards. [³vineyard ²my own ¹I kept not]. 7 Report to me! you whom [²loved ¹my soul], where you tend, where you bed at midday; lest at any time I should become as one being covered by a veil by the herds of your companions! 8 If you should not know yourself, O fair one among women, come forth at the heels of the flocks, and tend your kids by the tents of the shepherds! 9 To my horse among the chariots of Pharaoh, I likened you, my dear one. 10 How [²are beautiful ¹your cheeks] as a turtle-dove; your neck as pendants. 11 Representations of gold we will make for you with marks of silver. 12 Until of which time the king was at his laying down, my spikenard gave its scent. 13 [²is a bundle ³of balsam ¹My beloved man] to me; [²between ³my breasts ¹he shall be lodged]. 14 A cluster of camphor is my beloved man to me in vineyards of En-gedi. 15 Behold, you are fair my dear one; behold, you are fair; your eyes are as the doves. 16 Behold, you are fair, my beloved man; and indeed beautiful to [³bed ¹our ²shady]. 17 Beams of our houses are cedars; our fretworks cypresses.