Song 1

1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. ‡ Isa 5:11Ki 4:32Psa 14:1

Beloved

2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; ‡ Sng 4:10Psa 36:7Sng 1:4Isa 55:1-2Psa 63:3-5Luk 15:20Mat 26:26Sng 7:9 +12

for your love is better than wine.

3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. ‡ Ecc 7:1Exo 30:23-28Jhn 12:3Sng 4:10Php 2:9-10Psa 45:7-8Rev 14:42Co 2:14-16 +18

Your name is oil poured out,

therefore the virgins love you.

4 Take me away with you. ‡ Hos 11:4Jhn 6:44Psa 45:14-15Jhn 12:32Heb 12:1Jer 31:3Isa 25:8Isa 45:25 +28

Let’s hurry.

The king has brought me into his rooms.

Friends

We will be glad and rejoice in you.

We will praise your love more than wine!

Beloved

They are right to love you.

5 I am dark, but lovely, ‡ Luk 15:22Sng 2:142Co 5:21Psa 120:5Sng 2:7Sng 5:16Sng 5:81Co 4:10-13 +19

you daughters of Jerusalem,

like Kedar’s tents,

like Solomon’s curtains.

6 Don’t stare at me because I am dark, ‡ Sng 8:11-12Luk 12:51-53Jer 12:6Job 30:30Mrk 4:6Psa 69:8Act 14:22Gal 4:29 +7

because the sun has scorched me.

My mother’s sons were angry with me.

They made me keeper of the vineyards.

I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, ‡ Sng 3:1-4Isa 13:20Psa 23:1-2Gen 37:16Psa 28:11Jn 2:191Pe 1:81Pe 2:7 +23

where you graze your flock,

where you rest them at noon;

for why should I be as one who is veiled

beside the flocks of your companions?

Lover

8 If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, ‡ Sng 6:1Sng 5:9Heb 11:4-40Jas 2:21Jas 5:101Co 11:11Pe 3:6Eph 5:27 +17

follow the tracks of the sheep.

Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

9 I have compared you, my love, ‡ Sng 2:10Sng 2:13Jhn 15:14-15Isa 31:1Sng 1:15Sng 2:2Sng 4:7Sng 5:2 +4

to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.

10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, ‡ Ezk 16:11-131Pe 3:4Gen 24:47Sng 5:132Pe 1:3-4Gen 24:22Gen 41:42Isa 3:18-21 +4

your neck with strings of jewels.

Friends

11 We will make you earrings of gold, ‡ Php 3:21Psa 149:4Gen 1:26Eph 5:25-27Sng 8:9

with studs of silver.

Beloved

12 While the king sat at his table, ‡ Jhn 12:3Rev 3:20Mrk 14:3Luk 24:30-32Mat 22:11Mat 22:4Mat 25:34Mat 26:26-28 +5

my perfume spread its fragrance.

13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, ‡ Jhn 19:39Psa 45:8Eph 3:17Gen 43:11Sng 2:7Sng 3:5Sng 4:14Sng 4:6 +4

that lies between my breasts.

14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms ‡ 1Sa 23:29Jos 15:62Sng 1:13Sng 2:3Sng 4:13-14

from the vineyards of En Gedi.

Lover

15 Behold, ¹ you are beautiful, my love. ‡ Sng 4:1Sng 5:12Sng 4:72Co 11:2-3Eph 1:17-18Mal 2:14Sng 1:8Sng 2:10 +5

Behold, you are beautiful.

Your eyes are like doves.

Beloved

16 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; ‡ Sng 2:3Psa 45:2Zec 9:17Php 3:8-9Psa 110:3Rev 5:11-13Sng 3:7Sng 5:10-16

and our couch is verdant.

Lover

17 The beams of our house are cedars. ‡ Heb 11:10Psa 92:121Ki 6:91Pe 2:4-51Ti 3:15-162Ch 2:8-9Ezk 41:16Ezk 42:3 +2

Our rafters are firs.