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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 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Colloquy of Bride and Friends</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!</span><br /><span class="text">For your love is better than wine,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span>your anointing oils are fragrant,</span></span><br /><span class="text">your name is perfume poured out;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">therefore the maidens love you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Draw me after you, let us make haste.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">The king has brought me into his chambers.</span></span><br /><span class="text">We will exult and rejoice in you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">we will extol your love more than wine;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">rightly do they love you.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>I am black and beautiful,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O daughters of Jerusalem,</span></span><br /><span class="text">like the tents of Kedar,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">like the curtains of Solomon.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Do not gaze at me because I am dark,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">because the sun has gazed on me.</span></span><br /><span class="text">My mother’s sons were angry with me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they made me keeper of the vineyards,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but my own vineyard I have not kept!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Tell me, you whom my soul loves,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">where you pasture your flock,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">where you make it lie down at noon;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for why should I be like one who is veiled</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">beside the flocks of your companions?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>If you do not know,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O fairest among women,</span></span><br /><span class="text">follow the tracks of the flock,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and pasture your kids</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">beside the shepherds’ tents.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Colloquy of Bridegroom, Friends, and Bride</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>I compare you, my love,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Your cheeks are comely with ornaments,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">your neck with strings of jewels.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>We will make you ornaments of gold,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">studded with silver.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>While the king was on his couch,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my nard gave forth its fragrance.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">that lies between my breasts.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">in the vineyards of En-gedi.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Ah, you are beautiful, my love;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">ah, you are beautiful;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">your eyes are doves.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">truly lovely.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Our couch is green;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span>the beams of our house are cedar,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">our rafters<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19625a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> are pine.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 1:17">Song of Solomon 1:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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