Chapter 1

• 1 The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
• 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
• 3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
• 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.

• 5 ¶ I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
• 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.
• 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?

• 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.
• 9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
• 10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
• 11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.

• 12 ¶ While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
• 13 A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
• 14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
• 15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
• 16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
• 17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.