1Song of Songs 1

1The most beautiful of songs, by Solomon.Select Song of Songs 1:1

The First Song / The Woman

2Your lips cover me with kisses; your love is better than wine.Select Song of Songs 1:2

3There is a fragrance about you; the sound of your name recalls it. No woman could keep from loving you.Select Song of Songs 1:3

4Take me with you, and we'll run away; be my king and take me to your room. We will be happy together, drink deep, and lose ourselves in love. No wonder all women love you!Select Song of Songs 1:4

5Women of Jerusalem, I am dark but beautiful, dark as the desert tents of Kedar, but beautiful as the draperies in Solomon's palace.Select Song of Songs 1:5

6Don't look down on me because of my color, because the sun has tanned me. My brothers were angry with me and made me work in the vineyard. I had no time to care for myself.Select Song of Songs 1:6

7Tell me, my love, Where will you lead your flock to graze? Where will they rest from the noonday sun? Why should I need to look for you among the flocks of the other shepherds?Select Song of Songs 1:7

The Man

8Don't you know the place, loveliest of women? Go and follow the flock; find pasture for your goats near the tents of the shepherds.Select Song of Songs 1:8

9You, my love, excite men as a mare excites the stallions of Pharaoh's chariots.Select Song of Songs 1:9

10Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks and falls along your neck like jewels.Select Song of Songs 1:10

11But we will make for you a chain of gold with ornaments of silver.Select Song of Songs 1:11

The Woman

12My king was lying on his couch, and my perfume filled the air with fragrance.Select Song of Songs 1:12

13My lover has the scent of myrrh as he lies upon my breasts.Select Song of Songs 1:13

14My lover is like the wild flowers that bloom in the vineyards at Engedi.Select Song of Songs 1:14

The Man

15How beautiful you are, my love; how your eyes shine with love!Select Song of Songs 1:15

The Woman

16How handsome you are, my dearest; how you delight me! The green grass will be our bed;Select Song of Songs 1:16

17the cedars will be the beams of our house, and the cypress trees the ceiling.Select Song of Songs 1:17