Song of Solomon 1:2-17
The Bride Confesses Her Love
She ▼▼The translators have added speaker identifications based on the gender and number of the Hebrew words
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!For your blove is better than wine;
3your canointing oils are fragrant;
your dname is oil poured out;
therefore virgins love you.
4 eDraw me after you; flet us run.
gThe king has brought me into his chambers.
Others
We will hexult and rejoice in you;we will extol iyour love more than wine;
rightly do they love you.
She
5 I am very dark, but jlovely,O kdaughters of Jerusalem,
like lthe tents of mKedar,
like the curtains of Solomon.
6Do not gaze at me because I am dark,
because the sun has looked upon me.
My nmother’s sons were angry with me;
they made me okeeper of pthe vineyards,
but qmy own vineyard I have not kept!
7Tell me, you rwhom my soul loves,
where you spasture your flock,
where you make it tlie down at noon;
for why should I be like one who veils herself
beside the flocks of your ucompanions?
Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other
He
8 If you do not know,O vmost beautiful among women,
follow in the tracks of the flock,
and pasture your young goats
beside the shepherds’ tents.
9 I compare you, wmy love,
to xa mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
10 yYour cheeks are lovely with ornaments,
your neck with strings of jewels.
Others
11 We will make for you ▼▼The Hebrew for you is feminine singular
ornaments of gold,studded with silver.
She
12 While aathe king was on his couch,my abnard gave forth its fragrance.
13My beloved is to me a sachet of acmyrrh
that lies between my breasts.
14My beloved is to me a cluster of adhenna blossoms
in the vineyards of aeEngedi.
He
15 afBehold, agyou are beautiful, ahmy love;behold, you are beautiful;
your aieyes are doves.
She
16 Behold, you are beautiful, ajmy beloved, truly akdelightful.Our couch is green;
17the beams of our house are alcedar;
our rafters are ampine.
Song of Solomon 2:1-7
1I am a rose ▼▼Probably a bulb, such as a crocus, asphodel, or narcissus
of Sharon,aoa lily of the valleys.
He
2 As a lily among brambles,so is apmy love among the young women.
She
3 As an apple tree among the trees of the forest,so is my aqbeloved among the young men.
With great delight I sat arin his shadow,
and his asfruit was sweet to my taste.
4He atbrought me to the banqueting house, ▼
▼Hebrew the house of wine
and his avbanner over me was love.
5Sustain me with awraisins;
refresh me with apples,
axfor I am sick with love.
6His ayleft hand is under my head,
and his right hand azembraces me!
7I baadjure you, ▼
▼That is, I put you on oath; so throughout the Song
O bcdaughters of Jerusalem,by bdthe gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
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