[1] Solomon's Song of Songs. [2] Kiss me with the kisses of your mouth, because your love is better than wine. [3] The smell of your perfume is pleasant, and your name is pleasant like expensive perfume. That's why the young women love you. [4] Take me with you; let's run together. The king takes me into his rooms. We will rejoice and be happy with you; we praise your love more than wine. With good reason, the young women love you. [5] I'm dark but lovely, women of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. [6] Don't look at how dark I am, at how dark the sun has made me. My brothers were angry with me and made me tend the vineyards, so I haven't tended my own vineyard! [7] Tell me, you whom I love, where do you feed your sheep? Where do you let them rest at noon? Why should I look for you near your friend's sheep, like a woman who wears a veil? [8] You are the most beautiful of women. Surely you know to follow the sheep and feed your young goats near the shepherds' tents. [9] My darling, you are like a mare among the king's stallions. [10] Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, and your neck with jewels. [11] We will make for you gold earrings with silver hooks. [12] The smell of my perfume spreads out to the king on his couch. [13] My lover is like a bag of myrrh that lies all night between my breasts. [14] My lover is like a bunch of flowers from the vineyards at En Gedi. [15] My darling, you are beautiful! Oh, you are beautiful, and your eyes are like doves. [16] You are so handsome, my lover, and so pleasant! Our bed is the grass. [17] Cedar trees form our roof; our ceiling is made of juniper wood.
