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Song of Solomon 1 (NET)

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¹ Solomon's Most Excellent Love Song. ² Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine. ³ The fragrance of your colognes is delightful; your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you! ⁴ Draw me after you; let us hurry! May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers! We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. The Beloved to Her Lover : How rightly the young women adore you! ⁵ I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah. ⁶ Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep! ⁷ Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions! ⁸ If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds. ⁹ O my beloved, you are like a mare among Pharaoh's stallions. ¹⁰ Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels. ¹¹ We will make for you gold ornaments studded with silver. ¹² While the king was at his banqueting table, my nard gave forth its fragrance. ¹³ My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrh spending the night between my breasts. ¹⁴ My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-Gedi. ¹⁵ Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves! ¹⁶ Oh, how handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how delightful you are! The lush foliage is our canopied bed; ¹⁷ the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.