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✭The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.Love affirmed
Bride
2 📚✭Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:
for your love is better than wine.
3 📚✭The fragrance of your oil is pleasing;
your name is like oil poured out,
therefore the virgins love you.
4 📚✭Draw me✭ after you✭. We will run!
The king has brought me into
his chambers.
Friends
We will be glad and rejoice in you;
we will remember your love
more than wine.
The upright love you✭.
Love’s anxiety
Bride
5 📚✭I am black✭ but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem, like the
tents of Kedar,
like the curtains of Solomon.
6 📚Do not stare at me because I am black✭,
because the sun has looked on me.
My mother’s children were angry✭ with me.
They made me watch over the vineyards✭,
but my own vineyard I have not watched.
7 📚✭Tell me, O you whom my soul loves,
where you graze your sheep,
where you make your flock rest at noon;
for why should I be like someone who
turns aside by the flocks of your
companions?
Bridegroom
8 📚✭If you do not know,
O you most beautiful of women,
follow the tracks of the flock,
and pasture your young goats beside
the shepherds’ tents.
Love in fellowship
9 📚✭I compare you, O my love, to a
company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
10 📚Your cheeks are lovely with rows of jewels,
your neck with chains of gold.
11 📚We will make ornaments of gold for
you with studs of silver.
Bride
12 📚✭While the king sits at his table,
my spikenard sends out its aroma.
13 📚✭My beloved is to me like a bundle
of myrrh which lies all night
between my breasts.
14 📚My beloved is to me like a cluster
of henna blossoms in the vineyards
of Engedi.
Bridegroom
15 📚How beautiful✭ you are, my love✭!
How beautiful you are!
You have doves’ eyes✭.
Bride
16 📚✭How handsome you are, my beloved!
Yes, delightful. And our bed is green✭.
Bridegroom
17 📚✭The beams of our house are cedar,
and our rafters of fir.