Song of Songs 1
Douay–Rheims Bible
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1Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine,Select Song of Songs 1:1
2Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.Select Song of Songs 1:2
3Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the rightous love thee.Select Song of Songs 1:3
4I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.Select Song of Songs 1:4
5Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.Select Song of Songs 1:5
6Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.Select Song of Songs 1:6
7If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and follow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents of the shepherds.Select Song of Songs 1:7
8To my company of horsemen, in Pharao's chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.Select Song of Songs 1:8
9Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove's, thy neck as jewels.Select Song of Songs 1:9
10We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.Select Song of Songs 1:10
11While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.Select Song of Songs 1:11
12A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts.Select Song of Songs 1:12
13A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.Select Song of Songs 1:13
14Behold thou are fair, O my love, behold thou are fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.Select Song of Songs 1:14
15Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.Select Song of Songs 1:15
16The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.Select Song of Songs 1:16
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