Song of Solomon 1

1Solomon’s Most Wonderful Song.

2She says: Cover me with kisses, for your love is better than wine.

3Your perfume smells wonderful, but your name is sweeter than the best perfume. That is why the virgins love you.

4Take me with you. Let’s run away. The king took me into his room. We will rejoice and be happy for you. Remember, your love is better than wine. With good reason, the virgins love you.

5She says: Girls of Jerusalem, I am black, but I am beautiful. I am as beautiful as the tents in the land of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

6Don’t look at me because I am black, because the sun has burnt me. My brothers were angry with me. They forced me to take care of their vineyards, and that is why I could not take care of my vineyard.

7She says: I love you with all my soul! Tell me, where do you feed your sheep? Where do you lay them down at noon? I should come to be with you, or I will be like a hired woman caring for the sheep of your friends.

8He says: You are such a beautiful woman. If you don’t know the way, you must follow the path of the sheep. Feed your young goats near the shepherds’ tents.

9He says: My love, you are beautiful to me, as beautiful as a horse in front of Pharaoh’s war-chariot.

10Your cheeks are so beautiful with those ornaments hanging beside them. Your neck is so lovely under that neckless of gold.

11I will make you some more gold jewelry and decorate it with silver.

12She says: When the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

13My lover is like the small bag of myrrh around my neck, lying all night between my breasts.

14My lover is like a bunch of henna flowers near the vineyards of Engedi.

15He says love, you are so beautiful! Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.

16She says: You are so handsome, my lover! also our bed is green.

17The beams of our house are cedar. The rafters are from cypress trees.