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href="../songs/2.htm" title="Song of Solomon 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v22_1_1"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.1" class="v22_1_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Song.1.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The most beautiful of songs, by Solomon.<a href="#fn" id="link_Song.1.1!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><h3 class="s">The First Song</h3><h5 class="sp">The Woman</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_2"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.2" class="v22_1_2">2</span>Your lips cover me with kisses;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_2">your love is better than wine.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_3"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.3" class="v22_1_3">3</span>There is a fragrance about you;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_3">the sound of your name recalls it.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_3">No woman could keep from loving you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_4"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.4" class="v22_1_4">4</span>Take me with you, and we'll run away;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_4">be my king and take me to your room.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_4">We will be happy together,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_4">drink deep, and lose ourselves in love.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_4">No wonder all women love you!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_5"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.5" class="v22_1_5">5</span>Women of Jerusalem, I am dark but<a href="#fn" id="link_Song.1.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> beautiful,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_5">dark as the desert tents of Kedar,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_5">but beautiful as the draperies in Solomon's palace.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_6"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.6" class="v22_1_6">6</span>Don't look down on me because of my color,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_6">because the sun has tanned me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_6">My brothers were angry with me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_6">and made me work in the vineyard.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_6">I had no time to care for myself.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_7"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.7" class="v22_1_7">7</span>Tell me, my love,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_7">Where will you lead your flock to graze?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_7">Where will they rest from the noonday sun?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_7">Why should I need to look for you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_7">among the flocks of the other shepherds?<a href="#fn" id="link_Song.1.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><h5 class="sp">The Man</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_8"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.8" class="v22_1_8">8</span>Don't you know the place, loveliest of women?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_8">Go and follow the flock;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_8">find pasture for your goats</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_8">near the tents of the shepherds.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_9"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.9" class="v22_1_9">9</span>You, my love, excite men</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_9">as a mare excites the stallions of Pharaoh's chariots.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_10"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.10" class="v22_1_10">10</span>Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_10">and falls along your neck like jewels.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_11"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.11" class="v22_1_11">11</span>But we will make for you a chain of gold</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_11">with ornaments of silver.</span></p><h5 class="sp">The Woman</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_12"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.12" class="v22_1_12">12</span>My king was lying on his couch,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_12">and my perfume filled the air with fragrance.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_13"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.13" class="v22_1_13">13</span>My lover has the scent of myrrh</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_13">as he lies upon my breasts.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_14"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.14" class="v22_1_14">14</span>My lover is like the wild flowers</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_14">that bloom in the vineyards at Engedi.</span></p><h5 class="sp">The Man</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_15"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.15" class="v22_1_15">15</span>How beautiful you are, my love;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_15">how your eyes shine with love!</span></p><h5 class="sp">The Woman</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_16"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.16" class="v22_1_16">16</span>How handsome you are, my dearest;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_16">how you delight me!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_1_16">The green grass will be our bed;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_17"><span class="reftext" id="Song.1.17" class="v22_1_17">17</span>the cedars will be the beams of our house,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_1_17">and the cypress trees the ceiling.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.1: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">by Solomon; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">dedicated to Solomon, </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">about Solomon.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.5: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">but; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.7: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Why should I … shepherds; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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