Song of Solomon 1:2–4:16

²Let him kiss me with ^cthe kisses of his mouth:

For ^dthy love is better than wine.

³Because of the savour of thy good ointments

Thy ^ename is as ointment poured forth,

Therefore do the virgins love thee.

^4fDraw me, ^gwe will run after thee:

^hThe king hath brought me into his ⁱchambers:

^jWe will be glad and rejoice in thee,

We will remember ^dthy love more than wine:

The upright love thee.

⁵I am black, but ^kcomely, ^lO ye daughters of Jerusalem,

As ^mthe tents of ⁿKedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

⁶Look not upon me, because I am black,

Because the sun hath ^olooked upon me:

My mother’s children were angry with me;

They made me ^pthe keeper of the vineyards;

But ^qmine own vineyard have I not kept.

⁷Tell me, O thou ^qqwhom my soul loveth,

Where thou feedest, where thou makest ^rthy flock to rest at noon:

For why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of ^sthy companions?

⁸If thou know not, ^tO thou fairest among women,

Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock,

And feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.

⁹I have compared thee, ^uO my love,

To a company of ^xhorses in Pharaoh’s chariots.

^10yThy cheeks are comely with ^zrows of jewels,

Thy neck with chains of gold.

¹¹We will make thee ^zborders of gold

With studs of silver.

¹²While ^athe king sitteth at his table,

My ^bspikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

¹³A bundle of ^cmyrrh is my well-beloved unto me;

He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

¹⁴My beloved is unto me as a ^dcluster of camphire

In the vineyards of ^eEn-gedi.

^15fBehold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair;

^fgThou hast doves’ eyes.

¹⁶Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant:

Also our bed is green.

¹⁷The ^hbeams of ⁱour house are ^jcedar,

And our rafters of ^jfir.

II.I am the ^arose of ^bSharon,

And the ^clily of the valleys.

²As the ^clily among thorns,

So is ^dmy love among the daughters.

³As the ^eapple tree among the trees of the wood,

So is my beloved among the sons.

I sat down ^funder his shadow with great delight,

And ^ghis fruit was sweet to my taste.

^4hHe brought me to the banqueting house,

And his banner over me was love.

⁵ⁱStay me with ^jflagons, comfort me with ^eapples:

For ^lI am sick of love.

^6mHis left hand is under my head,

^mAnd his right hand doth embrace me.

⁷ⁿI charge you, ^oO ye daughters of Jerusalem,

By the ^pqroes, and by the ^prhinds of the field,

That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

⁸The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh

Leaping ^supon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

⁹My beloved is ^tlike a roe or a ^tuyoung hart:

Behold, he standeth behind our wall,

He ^vlooketh forth at the windows,

Shewing himself through the lattice.

¹⁰My beloved ^wspake, and said unto me,

^xRise up, ^dmy love, my fair one, and come away.

¹¹For lo, the winter is past,

The rain is over and gone;

¹²The flowers appear on the earth;

The time of the singing of birds is come,

And the voice of the ^yturtle is heard in our land;

¹³The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,

And the vines with the ^ztender grape give a ^zzgood smell.

^aArise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

¹⁴O ^bmy dove, ^cthat art ^din the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the ^estairs,

Let me see thy countenance, ^flet me hear thy voice;

For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is ^gcomely.

¹⁵Take us the ^hfoxes,

The little foxes, that spoil the vines:

For our vines have ^ztender grapes.

¹⁶ⁱMy beloved is mine, and I am his:

He ^kfeedeth among the lilies.

^17lUntil the day break, and the shadows flee away,

Turn, my beloved,

And ^mbe thou like a roe or a young hart

Upon the mountains of ⁿBether.

III.^aBy night on my bed I sought ^bhim whom my soul loveth:

^cI sought him, but I found him not.

²I will rise now, and go about the city

In the ^dstreets and ^ein the broad ways,

I will seek ^bhim whom my soul loveth:

^cI sought him, but I found him not.

^3fThe watchmen that go about the city found me:

^gTo whom I said, Saw ye ^bhim whom my soul loveth?

⁴It was but a little that I passed from them,

But I found ^bhim whom my soul loveth:

I ^hheld him, and would not ^hilet him go,

Until I had ^jbrought him into my mother’s house,

And into the chamber of ^kher that conceived me.

^5lI charge you, ^mO 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.

⁶ⁿWho is ^othis that cometh out of the wilderness like ^ppillars of smoke,

Perfumed with ^qmyrrh and frankincense,

With all powders of the ^rmerchant?

⁷Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s;

^sThreescore valiant men are about it,

Of the valiant of Israel.

⁸They all hold swords, being expert in war:

Every man hath ^this sword upon his thigh ^ubecause of fear ^ain the night.

⁹King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

¹⁰He 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 ^wthe daughters of Jerusalem.

¹¹Go forth, O ye daughters of ^xZion, and behold king Solomon

With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him

^yIn the day of his espousals,

And ^yin the day of the gladness of his heart.

IV.^aBehold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair;

Thou hast doves’ eyes ^bwithin thy ^bclocks:

^dThy hair is as a flock of ^egoats, ^dthat appear from mount ^fGilead.

^2gThy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing;

^gWhereof every one beareth twins, and none is barren among them.

³Thy lips are like a ^hthread of scarlet, and thy speech is ⁱcomely:

^kThy temples are like a piece of a ^klpomegranate ^bwithin thy ^clocks.

^4mThy neck is like the tower of David

Builded for an ⁿarmoury,

Whereon there ^ohang a thousand bucklers, all ^pshields of mighty men.

^5qThy two breasts are like two ^ryoung ^qroes that are twins,

Which ^sfeed among the lilies.

^6tUntil the day break, and ^uthe shadows flee away,

I will get me to the mountain of ^wmyrrh, and to the hill of ^wfrankincense.

^7aThou art all fair, my love; there is ^xno spot in thee.

⁸Come with me from ^yLebanon, my ^zspouse, with me from Lebanon:

Look from the top of ^aAmana, from the top of ^bShenir and ^bHermon,

From the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the ^cleopards.

⁹Thou hast ravished my heart, ^dmy sister, my spouse;

Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes,

With ^eone chain of thy neck.

¹⁰How fair is thy love, ^dmy sister, my spouse!

How much ^fbetter is thy love than wine!

And ^gthe smell of thine ointments than all spices!

^11hThy lips, O my spouse, drop as the ⁱhoneycomb:

^hHoney and milk are under thy tongue;

And the smell of thy garments is ^jlike the smell of Lebanon.

¹²A garden inclosed is ^dmy sister, my spouse;

A spring shut up, ^ka fountain ^lsealed.

¹³Thy plants are an ^morchard of ⁿpomegranates, with ^opleasant fruits;

Camphire, with ^pspikenard,

^14pSpikenard and saffron;

^qCalamus and ^qcinnamon, with all trees of ^rfrankincense;

^qrsMyrrh and ^saloes, with all the ^qtchief spices:

¹⁵A fountain of gardens, a well of ^uliving waters,

And streams from Lebanon.

¹⁶Awake, O north wind; and come thou south;

^xBlow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.

^yLet my beloved come into his garden,

And ^zeat his ^opleasant fruits.

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