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Song of Songs 1

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 thy love is better than wine.Select Song of Songs 1:2

3Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.Select Song of Songs 1:3

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

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

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

7Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?Select Song of Songs 1:7

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

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

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

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

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

13A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.Select Song of Songs 1:13

14My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En–gedi.Select Song of Songs 1:14

15Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.Select Song of Songs 1:15

16Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, 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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