Song of Solomon 1 ~ 4

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1:1The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. Compare
1:2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! / For your love is better than wine. Compare
1:3Your anointing oils have a pleasant fragrance; / Your name is like ointment poured forth; / Therefore the virgins love you. Compare
1:4Draw me; we will run after you - The king has brought me into his chambers - / We will be glad and rejoice in you; / We will extol your love more than wine. / Rightly do they love you. Compare
1:5I am black but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, / Like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Compare
1:6Do not look at me, because I am black, / Because the sun has scorched me. / My mother's sons were angry with me; / They made me keeper of the vineyards, / But my own vineyard I have not kept. Compare
1:7Tell me, you whom my soul loves, Where do you pasture your flock? / Where do you make it lie down at noon? / For why should I be like one who is veiled / Beside the flocks of your companions? Compare
1:8If you yourself do not know, / You fairest among women, / Go forth on the footsteps of the flock, / And pasture your young goats / By the shepherds' tents. Compare
1:9I compare you, my love, / To a mare among Pharaoh's chariots. Compare
1:10Your cheeks are lovely with plaits of ornaments, / Your neck with strings of jewels. Compare
1:11We will make you plaits of gold / With studs of silver. Compare
1:12While the king was at his table, / My spikenard gave forth its fragrance. Compare
1:13My beloved is to me a bundle of myrrh / That lies at night between my breasts. Compare
1:14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna flowers / In the vineyards of En-gedi. Compare
1:15Oh, you are beautiful, my love! / Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves. Compare
1:16Oh, you are beautiful, my beloved; indeed, pleasant! Indeed, our couch is green. Compare
1:17The beams of our house are cedars; / Our rafters are cypresses. Compare
2:1I am a rose of Sharon, / A lily of the valleys. Compare
2:2As a lily among thorns, / So is my love among the daughters. Compare
2:3As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, / So is my beloved among the sons: In his shade I delighted and sat down, / And his fruit was sweet to my taste. Compare
2:4He brought me into the banqueting house, / And his banner over me was love. Compare
2:5Sustain me with raisin cakes, / Refresh me with apples, / For I am sick with love. Compare
2:6His left hand is under my head, / And his right hand embraces me. Compare
2:7I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, / By the gazelles or by the hinds of the fields, / Not to rouse up or awaken my love / Until she pleases. Compare
2:8The voice of my beloved! Now he comes, / Leaping upon the mountains, / Skipping upon the hills. Compare
2:9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart. / Now he stands behind our wall; / He is looking through the windows, / He is glancing through the lattice. Compare
2:10My beloved responds and says to me, / Rise up, my love, / My beauty, and come away; Compare
2:11For now the winter is past; / The rain is over and gone. Compare
2:12Flowers appear on the earth; / The time of singing has come, / And the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. Compare
2:13The fig tree has ripened its figs, / And the vines are in blossom - they give forth their fragrance. / Rise up, my love, / My beauty, and come away. Compare
2:14My dove, in the clefts of the rock, / In the covert of the precipice, Let me see your countenance, / Let me hear your voice; / For your voice is sweet, / And your countenance is lovely. Compare
2:15Catch the foxes for us, / The little foxes, / That ruin the vineyards / While our vineyards are in blossom. Compare
2:16My beloved is mine, and I am his; / He pastures his flock among the lilies. Compare
2:17Until the day dawns and the shadows flee away, / Turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young hart / On the mountains of Bether. Compare
3:1On my bed night after night / I sought him whom my soul loves; / I sought him, but found him not. Compare
3:2I will rise now and go about in the city; / In the streets and in the squares / I will seek him whom my soul loves. / I sought him, but found him not. Compare
3:3The watchmen who go about in the city found me - / Have you seen him whom my soul loves? Compare
3:4Scarcely had I passed them / When I found him whom my soul loves; / I held him and would not let go / Until I had brought him into my mother's house / And into the chamber of her who conceived me. Compare
3:5I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, / By the gazelles or by the hinds of the fields, / Not to rouse up or awaken my love / Until she pleases. Compare
3:6Who is she who comes up from the wilderness / Like pillars of smoke, / Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, / With all the fragrant powders of the merchant? Compare
3:7There is Solomon's bed; / Sixty mighty men surround it, / Of the mighty men of Israel. Compare
3:8All of them wield the sword and are expert in war; / Each man has his sword at his thigh / Because of the night alarms. Compare
3:9King Solomon made himself a palanquin / Of the wood of Lebanon. Compare
3:10Its posts he made of silver; / Its bottom, of gold; / Its seat, of purple; / Its midst was inlaid with love / From the daughters of Jerusalem. Compare
3:11Go forth, O daughters of Zion, / And look at King Solomon with the crown / With which his mother crowned him / On the day of his espousals, / Yes, on the day of the gladness of his heart. Compare
4:1Oh, you are beautiful, my love! / Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil; / Your hair is like a flock of goats / That repose on Mount Gilead. Compare
4:2Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes / That have come up from the washing, / All of which have borne twins, / And none of them is bereaved of her young. Compare
4:3Your lips are like a scarlet thread, / And your mouth is lovely; / Your cheeks are like a piece of pomegranate / Behind your veil. Compare
4:4Your neck is like the tower of David, / Built for an armory: / A thousand bucklers hang on it, / All the shields of the mighty men. Compare
4:5Your two breasts are like two fawns, / Twins of a gazelle, / That feed among the lilies. Compare
4:6Until the day dawns and the shadows flee away, / I, for my part, will go to the mountain of myrrh / And to the hill of frankincense. Compare
4:7You are altogether beautiful, my love, / And there is no blemish in you. Compare
4:8Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; / With me from Lebanon come. / Look from the top of Amana, / From the top of Senir and Hermon, / From the lions' dens, / From the leopards' mountains. Compare
4:9You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride; / You have ravished my heart with one glance of your eyes, / With one strand of your necklace. Compare
4:10How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! / How much better is your love than wine, / And the fragrance of your ointments / Than all spices! Compare
4:11Your lips drip fresh honey, my bride; / Honey and milk are under your tongue; / And the fragrance of your garments / Is like the fragrance of Lebanon. Compare
4:12A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride, / A spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Compare
4:13Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates / With choicest fruit; / Henna with spikenard, Compare
4:14Spikenard and saffron; / Calamus and cinnamon, / With all the trees of frankincense; / Myrrh and aloes, / With all the chief spices. Compare
4:15A fountain in gardens, / A well of living water, / And streams from Lebanon. Compare

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