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Song of Songs 1

American King James Version

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1The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.Select Song of Songs 1:1

2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for your love is better than wine.Select Song of Songs 1:2

3Because of the smell of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.Select Song of Songs 1:3

4Draw me, we will run after you: the king has brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in you, we will remember your love more than wine: the upright love you.Select Song of Songs 1:4

5I am black, but comely, O you daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.Select Song of Songs 1:5

6Look not on me, because I am black, because the sun has looked on me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard have I not kept.Select Song of Songs 1:6

7Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of your companions? ¶Select Song of Songs 1:7

8If you know not, O you fairest among women, go your way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed your kids beside the shepherds’ tents.Select Song of Songs 1:8

9I have compared you, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.Select Song of Songs 1:9

10Your cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, your neck with chains of gold.Select Song of Songs 1:10

11We will make you borders of gold with studs of silver. ¶Select Song of Songs 1:11

12While the king sits at his table, my spikenard sends forth the smell thereof.Select Song of Songs 1:12

13A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved to me; he shall lie all night between my breasts.Select Song of Songs 1:13

14My beloved is to me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.Select Song of Songs 1:14

15Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves’ eyes.Select Song of Songs 1:15

16Behold, you are fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant: also our bed is green.Select Song of Songs 1:16

17The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.Select Song of Songs 1:17

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