1:1 The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
1:2 Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is
 better than wine.
1:3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume
 running out; so the young girls give you their love.
1:4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken
 me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we
 will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are
 they your lovers.
1:5 I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as
 the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
1:6 Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark,
 because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were
 angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but
 my vine-garden I have not kept.
1:7 Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock,
 and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day;
 why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your
 friends?
1:8 If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go
 on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young
 goats food by the tents of the keepers.
1:9 I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in
 Pharaoh's carriages.
1:10 Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with
 chains of jewels.
1:11 We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.
1:12 While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out
 their perfume.
1:13 As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at
 rest all night between my breasts.
1:14 My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the
 vine-gardens of En-gedi.
1:15 See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes
 of a dove.
1:16 See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is
 green.
1:17 Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards
 are made of fir-trees.
2:1 I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.
2:2 As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my
 love among the daughters.
2:3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my
 loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with
 great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
2:4 He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was
 love.
2:5 Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with
 apples; I am overcome with love.
2:6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round
 about me.
2:7 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the
 field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
2:8 The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the
 mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.
2:9 My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of
 our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be
 seen through the spaces.
2:10 My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and
 come away.
2:11 For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
2:12 The flowers are come on the earth; the time of cutting the
 vines is come, and the voice of the dove is sounding in our
 land;
2:13 The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with
 their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my
 beautiful one, and come away.
2:14 O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in
 the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your
 voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face
 is fair.
2:15 Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to
 the vines; our vines have young grapes.
2:16 My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among
 the flowers.
2:17 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark,
 come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of
 Bether.
3:1 By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of
 my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.
3:2 I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and
 in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my
 soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.
3:3 The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I
 said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?
3:4 I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face
 with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands,
 and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's
 house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.
3:5 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the
 field, let not love be moved till it is ready.
3:6 Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of
 smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the
 trader?
3:7 See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about
 it, of the army of Israel,
3:8 All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has
 his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.
3:9 King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.
3:10 He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat
 of purple, the middle of it of ebony.
3:11 Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon,
 with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when
 he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.
4:1 See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes
 of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their
 rest on the side of Gilead.
4:2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly
 cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs,
 and there is not one without young.
4:3 Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is
 fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit
 under your veil.
4:4 Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house
 of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging,
 breastplates for fighting-men.
4:5 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth,
 which take their food among the lilies.
4:6 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I
 will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of
 frankincense.
4:7 You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.
4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon;
 see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon,
 from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the
 leopards.
4:9 You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have
 taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one
 chain of your neck!
4:10 How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your
 love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!
4:11 Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your
 tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of
 Lebanon.
4:12 A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut
 up, a spring of water stopped.
4:13 The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the
 best fruits, henna and spikenard,
4:14 Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees
 of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
4:15 You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters,
 and flowing waters from Lebanon.
4:16 Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my
 garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come
 into his garden, and take of his good fruits.
5:1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my
 myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my
 milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with
 love.
5:2 I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my
 loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my
 love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew,
 and my hair with the drops of the night.
5:3 I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are
 washed; how may I make them unclean?
5:4 My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was
 moved for him.
5:5 I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping
 with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of
 the door.
5:6 I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had
 taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his
 back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come
 near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.
5:7 The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me
 blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil
 from me.
5:8 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved
 one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.
5:9 What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among
 women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say
 this to us?
5:10 My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten
 thousand.
5:11 His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick,
 and black as a raven.
5:12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams,
 washed with milk, and rightly placed.
5:13 His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every
 sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
5:14 His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with
 beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered
 with sapphires.
5:15 His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate
 gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.
5:16 His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is
 my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
6:1 Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where
 is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him
 with you?
6:2 My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of
 spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.
6:3 I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes
 food among the lilies.
6:4 You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as
 Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.
6:5 Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have
 overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their
 rest on the side of Gilead.
6:6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which come up from the
 washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without
 young.
6:7 Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your
 veil.
6:8 There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young
 girls without number.
6:9 My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only
 one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her
 birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the
 queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.
6:10 Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the
 moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with
 flags?
6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants
 of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the
 pomegranate-trees were in flower.
6:12 Before I was conscious of it, ...
6:13 Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back,
 so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the
 Shulammite? A sword-dance.
7:1 How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's
 daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of
 the hands of a good workman:
7:2 Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and
 in the middle a round cup full of wine.
7:3 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.
7:4 Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters
 in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the
 tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:
7:5 Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like
 purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.
7:6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.
7:7 You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the
 fruit of the vine.
7:8 I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its
 branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the
 vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;
7:9 And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down
 smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my
 teeth.
7:10 I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.
7:11 Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us
 take rest among the cypress-trees.
7:12 Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the
 vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the
 pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.
7:13 The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are
 all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my
 loved one.
8:1 Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's
 breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you
 kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.
8:2 I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she
 would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine,
 drink of the pomegranate.
8:3 His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand
 about me.
8:4 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be
 moved till it is ready.
8:5 Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on
 her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the
 apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in
 pain at your birth.
8:6 Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love
 is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its
 coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.
8:7 Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome
 it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for
 love, it would be judged a price not great enough.
8:8 We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we
 to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?
8:9 If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of
 silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with
 cedar-wood.
8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in
 his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.
8:11 Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the
 vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits
 of silver for its fruit.
8:12 My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O
 Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit
 of them two hundred.
8:13 You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends
 give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.
8:14 Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the
 mountains of spice.
