Song of Songs 1

1:1A song of songs which is to Solomon.

1:2Let him kiss me by kisses of his mouth! for your breasts are good over wine.

1:3And the scent of your perfumes -- your name is over all the aromatics of perfume being emptied out; on account of this the young women loved you.

1:4They drew me; we will run after you for the scent of your perfumes. The king carried me into his inner chamber. We should exult and be glad in you. We shall love your breasts over wine. Uprightness loved you.

1:5I am black and fair, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the hide coverings of Solomon.

1:6You should not look, for I am being blackened, for the sun looked over me. Sons of my mother quarreled with me. They made me keeper in the vineyards. I kept not my own vineyard.

1:7Report to me! you whom my soul loved, 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!

1:8If 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!

1:9To my horse among the chariots of Pharaoh, I likened you, my dear one.

1:10How your cheeks are beautiful as a turtle-dove; your neck as pendants.

1:11Representations of gold we will make for you with marks of silver.

1:12Until of which time the king was at his laying down, my spikenard gave its scent.

1:13My beloved man is a bundle of balsam to me; he shall be lodged between my breasts.

1:14A cluster of camphor is my beloved man to me in vineyards of En-gedi.

1:15Behold, you are fair my dear one; behold, you are fair; your eyes are as the doves.

1:16Behold, you are fair, my beloved man; and indeed beautiful to our shady bed.

1:17Beams of our houses are cedars; our fretworks cypresses.