CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Song of Solomon 1 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/songs/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/songs/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Songs 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ecclesiastes/12.htm" title="Ecclesiastes 12">◄</a> Song of Solomon 1 <a 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/songs/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This is Solomon’s song of songs, more wonderful than any other.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Kiss me and kiss me again,</p><p class="line2">for your love is sweeter than wine.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>How pleasing is your fragrance;</p><p class="line2">your name is like the spreading fragrance of scented oils.</p><p class="line2">No wonder all the young women love you!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Take me with you; come, let’s run!</p><p class="line2">The king has brought me into his bedroom.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Women of Jerusalem</p><p class="line1">How happy we are for you, O king.</p><p class="line2">We praise your love even more than wine.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1">How right they are to adore you.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I am dark but beautiful,</p><p class="line2">O women of Jerusalem—</p><p class="line1">dark as the tents of Kedar,</p><p class="line2">dark as the curtains of Solomon’s tents.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Don’t stare at me because I am dark—</p><p class="line2">the sun has darkened my skin.</p><p class="line1">My brothers were angry with me;</p><p class="line2">they forced me to care for their vineyards,</p><p class="line2">so I couldn’t care for myself—my own vineyard.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Tell me, my love, where are you leading your flock today?</p><p class="line2">Where will you rest your sheep at noon?</p><p class="line1">For why should I wander like a prostitute<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line2">among your friends and their flocks?</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Man</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If you don’t know, O most beautiful woman,</p><p class="line2">follow the trail of my flock,</p><p class="line2">and graze your young goats by the shepherds’ tents.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You are as exciting, my darling,</p><p class="line2">as a mare among Pharaoh’s stallions.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>How lovely are your cheeks;</p><p class="line2">your earrings set them afire!</p><p class="line1">How lovely is your neck,</p><p class="line2">enhanced by a string of jewels.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>We will make for you earrings of gold</p><p class="line2">and beads of silver.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The king is lying on his couch,</p><p class="line2">enchanted by the fragrance of my perfume.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>My lover is like a sachet of myrrh</p><p class="line2">lying between my breasts.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He is like a bouquet of sweet henna blossoms</p><p class="line2">from the vineyards of En-gedi.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Man</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>How beautiful you are, my darling,</p><p class="line2">how beautiful!</p><p class="line2">Your eyes are like doves.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You are so handsome, my love,</p><p class="line2">pleasing beyond words!</p><p class="line1">The soft grass is our bed;</p><p class="line2"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>fragrant cedar branches are the beams of our house,</p><p class="line2">and pleasant smelling firs are the rafters.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">The headings identifying the speakers are not in the original text, though the Hebrew usually gives clues by means of the gender of the person speaking.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">like a veiled woman.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ecclesiastes/12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ecclesiastes 12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ecclesiastes 12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../songs/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Song of Solomon 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/songs/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>