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- 1:1 The song of songs, which [is] Solomon's.
- 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy
- love [is] better than wine.
- 1:3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name [is
- as] ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
- 1:4 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.
- 1:5 I [am] black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as
- the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
- 1:6 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.
- 1:7 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?
- 1:8 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.
- 1:9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses
- in Pharaoh's chariots.
- 1:10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows [of jewels], thy neck
- with chains [of gold].
- 1:11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
- 1:12 While the king [sitteth] at his table, my spikenard
- sendeth forth the smell thereof.
- 1:13 A bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved unto me; he shall
- lie all night betwixt my breasts.
- 1:14 My beloved [is] unto me [as] a cluster of camphire in
- the vineyards of Engedi.
- 1:15 Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art]
- fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes.
- 1:16 Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also
- our bed [is] green.
- 1:17 The beams of our house [are] cedar, [and] our rafters of
- fir.
-
- 2:1 I [am] the rose of Sharon, [and] the lily of the valleys.
- 2:2 As the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the
- daughters.
- 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my
- beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great
- delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste.
- 2:4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner
- over me [was] love.
- 2:5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I [am]
- sick of love.
- 2:6 His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth
- embrace me.
- 2:7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes,
- and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake
- [my] love, till he please.
- 2:8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon
- the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
- 2:9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he
- standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows,
- showing himself through the lattice.
- 2:10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my
- fair one, and come away.
- 2:11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and]
- gone;
- 2:12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing
- [of birds] is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our
- land;
- 2:13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines
- [with] the tender grape give a [good] smell. Arise, my love, my
- fair one, and come away.
- 2:14 O my dove, [that art] in the clefts of the rock, in the
- secret [places] of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let
- me hear thy voice; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy
- countenance [is] comely.
- 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the
- vines: for our vines [have] tender grapes.
- 2:16 My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his: he feedeth among
- the lilies.
- 2:17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my
- beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the
- mountains of Bether.
-
- 3:1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I
- sought him, but I found him not.
- 3:2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets,
- and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I
- sought him, but I found him not.
- 3:3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I
- said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
- 3:4 [It was] but a little that I passed from them, but I
- found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let
- him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and
- into the chamber of her that conceived me.
- 3:5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes,
- and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake
- [my] love, till he please.
- 3:6 Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like
- pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with
- all powders of the merchant?
- 3:7 Behold his bed, which [is] Solomon's; threescore valiant
- men [are] about it, of the valiant of Israel.
- 3:8 They all hold swords, [being] expert in war: every man
- [hath] his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
- 3:9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of
- Lebanon.
- 3:10 He made the pillars thereof [of] silver, the bottom
- thereof [of] gold, the covering of it [of] purple, the midst
- thereof being paved [with] love, for the daughters of
- Jerusalem.
- 3:11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king
- Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the
- day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his
- heart.
-
- 4:1 Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art]
- fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair [is]
- as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
- 4:2 Thy teeth [are] like a flock [of sheep that are even]
- shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear
- twins, and none [is] barren among them.
- 4:3 Thy lips [are] like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech
- [is] comely: thy temples [are] like a piece of a pomegranate
- within thy locks.
- 4:4 Thy neck [is] like the tower of David builded for an
- armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of
- mighty men.
- 4:5 Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes that are twins,
- which feed among the lilies.
- 4:6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will
- get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of
- frankincense.
- 4:7 Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee.
- 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, [my] spouse, with me from
- Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and
- Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the
- leopards.
- 4:9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, [my] spouse; thou
- hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain
- of thy neck.
- 4:10 How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] spouse! how much
- better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments
- than all spices!
- 4:11 Thy lips, O [my] spouse, drop [as] the honeycomb: honey
- and milk [are] under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments
- [is] like the smell of Lebanon.
- 4:12 A garden enclosed [is] my sister, [my] spouse; a spring
- shut up, a fountain sealed.
- 4:13 Thy plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates, with
- pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
- 4:14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all
- trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief
- spices:
- 4:15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and
- streams from Lebanon.
- 4:16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my
- garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved
- come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
-
- 5:1 I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have
- gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with
- my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends;
- drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
- 5:2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my
- beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my
- love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew,
- [and] my locks with the drops of the night.
- 5:3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have
- washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
- 5:4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door], and
- my bowels were moved for him.
- 5:5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped
- [with] myrrh, and my fingers [with] sweet smelling myrrh, upon
- the handles of the lock.
- 5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn
- himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought
- him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no
- answer.
- 5:7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they
- smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away
- my veil from me.
- 5:8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my
- beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.
- 5:9 What [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou
- fairest among women? what [is] thy beloved more than [another]
- beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
- 5:10 My beloved [is] white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten
- thousand.
- 5:11 His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are]
- bushy, [and] black as a raven.
- 5:12 His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of
- waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set.
- 5:13 His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, [as] sweet flowers:
- his lips [like] lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
- 5:14 His hands [are as] gold rings set with the beryl: his
- belly [is as] bright ivory overlaid [with] sapphires.
- 5:15 His legs [are as] pillars of marble, set upon sockets of
- fine gold: his countenance [is] as Lebanon, excellent as the
- cedars.
- 5:16 His mouth [is] most sweet: yea, he [is] altogether
- lovely. This [is] my beloved, and this [is] my friend, O
- daughters of Jerusalem.
-
- 6:1 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women?
- whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with
- thee.
- 6:2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of
- spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
- 6:3 I [am] my beloved's, and my beloved [is] mine: he feedeth
- among the lilies.
- 6:4 Thou [art] beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as
- Jerusalem, terrible as [an army] with banners.
- 6:5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me:
- thy hair [is] as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
- 6:6 Thy teeth [are] as a flock of sheep which go up from the
- washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and [there is] not
- one barren among them.
- 6:7 As a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy
- locks.
- 6:8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines,
- and virgins without number.
- 6:9 My dove, my undefiled is [but] one; she [is] the [only]
- one of her mother, she [is] the choice [one] of her that bare
- her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; [yea], the queens
- and the concubines, and they praised her.
- 6:10 Who [is] she [that] looketh forth as the morning, fair
- as the moon, clear as the sun, [and] terrible as [an army] with
- banners?
- 6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of
- the valley, [and] to see whether the vine flourished, [and] the
- pomegranates budded.
- 6:12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me [like] the chariots
- of Amminadib.
- 6:13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may
- look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were
- the company of two armies.
-
- 7:1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's
- daughter! the joints of thy thighs [are] like jewels, the work
- of the hands of a cunning workman.
- 7:2 Thy navel [is like] a round goblet, [which] wanteth not
- liquor: thy belly [is like] an heap of wheat set about with
- lilies.
- 7:3 Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are]
- twins.
- 7:4 Thy neck [is] as a tower of ivory; thine eyes [like] the
- fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose [is]
- as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
- 7:5 Thine head upon thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair of
- thine head like purple; the king [is] held in the galleries.
- 7:6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
- 7:7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts
- to clusters [of grapes].
- 7:8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold
- of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as
- clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
- 7:9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my
- beloved, that goeth [down] sweetly, causing the lips of those
- that are asleep to speak.
- 7:10 I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me.
- 7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us
- lodge in the villages.
- 7:12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the
- vine flourish, [whether] the tender grape appear, [and] the
- pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
- 7:13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates [are] all
- manner of pleasant [fruits], new and old, [which] I have laid
- up for thee, O my beloved.
-
- 8:1 O that thou [wert] as my brother, that sucked the breasts
- of my mother! [when] I should find thee without, I would kiss
- thee; yea, I should not be despised.
- 8:2 I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my mother's
- house, [who] would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of
- spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
- 8:3 His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right
- hand should embrace me.
- 8:4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not
- up, nor awake [my] love, until he please.
- 8:5 Who [is] this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning
- upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there
- thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth
- [that] bare thee.
- 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine
- arm: for love [is] strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as the
- grave: the coals thereof [are] coals of fire, [which hath a]
- most vehement flame.
- 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods
- drown it: if [a] man would give all the substance of his house
- for love, it would utterly be contemned.
- 8:8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what
- shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken
- for?
- 8:9 If she [be] a wall, we will build upon her a palace of
- silver: and if she [be] a door, we will enclose her with boards
- of cedar.
- 8:10 I [am] a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in
- his eyes as one that found favour.
- 8:11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the
- vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to
- bring a thousand [pieces] of silver.
- 8:12 My vineyard, which [is] mine, [is] before me: thou, O
- Solomon, [must have] a thousand, and those that keep the fruit
- thereof two hundred.
- 8:13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions
- hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear [it].
- 8:14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to
- a young hart upon the mountains of spices.