1The Song of Songs of Solomon, son of David, King of Israel, which is Song of Songs, and called in Hebrew, Song of Songs
2He shall kiss me from the kisses of his mouth, for your affections are better than wine
3For fragrance of your sweet ointments your name is fine oil of Myrrh, because of this the girls love you
4Pull me after you, let us run. The King brought me to his bedroom. We will rejoice and we will leap for joy with you. Your love will be remembered more than wine, and your affection more than the upright
5I am black and beautiful, daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Qedar and like the curtains of Solomon
6You shall not look at me, because I am black, because the sun has darkened me. The children of my mother fought hard with me; they made me keeper of vineyards, and my vineyard I have not kept
7Show me him whom my soul has loved. How have you fed and how have you dined at noonday?, lest I shall be as a stray in the flock of your sheep
8But you shall know yourself; you are beautiful among women. Come into the footprints of the sheep and feed your kids in the tents of Shepherds
9I have compared you to a mare in the chariot of Pharaoh, my kinswoman
10Your cheeks are beautiful with braids and your neck with necklaces
11We shall make chains of gold for you with studs of silver
12With the King on his seat my spikenard gives its fragrance
13A pouch of myrrh is he who loves me; between my breasts he will stay
14Bouquets of henna flowers is my beloved in a vineyard of Ain Gad
15Behold, you are beautiful, my kinswoman, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are of doves!
16Behold, you are beautiful, my love, also you are sweet, and our bed is canopied
17The beams of our house are cedars, the joists of cypress
