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| 1:1 | The song of songs, which is Solomon's. |
| 1:2 | Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. |
| 1:3 | Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. |
| 1:4 | Draw 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. |
| 1:5 | I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. |
| 1:6 | Look 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. |
| 1:7 | Tell 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? |
| 1:8 | If 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. |
| 1:9 | I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots. |
| 1:10 | Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold. |
| 1:11 | We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver. |
| 1:12 | While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. |
| 1:13 | A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. |
| 1:14 | My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. |
| 1:15 | Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes. |
| 1:16 | Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green. |
| 1:17 | The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. |
| 1:1 | Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy loue is better then wine. |
| 1:2 | Because of the sauour of thy good ointments thy name is as an ointment powred out: therefore the virgins loue thee. |
| 1:3 | Drawe me: we will runne after thee: the King hath brought me into his chabers: we will reioyce and be glad in thee: we will remember thy loue more then wine: the righteous do loue thee. |
| 1:4 | I am blacke, O daughters of Ierusalem, but comely, as the tentes of Kedar, and as the curtaines of Salomon. |
| 1:5 | Regard ye me not because I am blacke: for the sunne hath looked vpon mee. The sonnes of my mother were angry against mee: they made me the keeper of ye vines: but I kept not mine owne vine. |
| 1:6 | Shewe me, O thou, whome my soule loueth, where thou feedest, where thou liest at noone: for why should I be as she that turneth aside to the flockes of thy companions? |
| 1:7 | If thou knowe not, O thou the fairest among women, get thee foorth by the steps of the flocke, and feede thy kiddes by the tents of the shepheards. |
| 1:8 | I haue compared thee, O my loue, to the troupe of horses in the charets of Pharaoh. |
| 1:9 | Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of stones, and thy necke with chaines. |
| 1:10 | We will make thee borders of golde with studdes of siluer. |
| 1:11 | Whiles the King was at his repast, my spikenard gaue the smelll thereof. |
| 1:12 | My welbeloued is as a bundle of myrrhe vnto me: he shall lie betweene my breasts. |
| 1:13 | My welbeloued is as a cluster of camphire vnto me in the vines of Engedi. |
| 1:14 | My loue, beholde, thou art faire: beholde, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues. |
| 1:15 | My welbeloued, beholde, thou art faire and pleasant: also our bed is greene: |
| 1:16 | The beames of our house are cedars, our rafters are of firre. |
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