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width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/songs/1.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Solomon’s Love for a Shulamite Girl</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Song-1-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The song of songs, which <i>is</i> Solomon’s.</span></p> <h3> The Banquet</span></h3><h4 class="speaker"><span class="text Song-1-2">The <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-2"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-2">For <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>your love <i>is</i> better than wine.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Because of the fragrance of your good ointments,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-3">Your name <i>is</i> ointment poured forth;</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-3">Therefore the virgins love you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Draw me away!</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker"><span class="text Song-1-4">The Daughters of Jerusalem</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-4">We will run after <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>you.</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker"><span class="text Song-1-4">The Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-4">The king has brought me into his chambers.</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker"><span class="text Song-1-4">The Daughters of Jerusalem</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-4">We will be glad and rejoice in <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>you.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-4">We will remember your love more than wine.</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker"><span class="text Song-1-4">The Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-4">Rightly do they love you.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I <i>am</i> dark, but lovely,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-5">O daughters of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-5">Like the tents of Kedar,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-5">Like the curtains of Solomon.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Do not look upon me, because I <i>am</i> dark,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-6">Because the sun has <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>tanned me.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-6">My mother’s sons were angry with me;</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-6">They made me the keeper of the vineyards,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-6"><i>But</i> my own vineyard I have not kept.</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> (To Her Beloved)</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-7"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Tell me, O you whom I love,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-7">Where you feed <i>your flock,</i></span><br /><span class="text Song-1-7">Where you make <i>it</i> rest at noon.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-7">For why should I be as one who <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>veils herself</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-7">By the flocks of your companions?</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> The Beloved</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-8"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If you do not know, O fairest among women,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-8"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>Follow in the footsteps of the flock,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-8">And feed your little goats</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-8">Beside the shepherds’ tents.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I have compared you, my love,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-9">To my filly among Pharaoh’s chariots.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-10">Your neck with chains <i>of gold.</i></span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> The Daughters of Jerusalem</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-11"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>We will make <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>you ornaments of gold</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-11">With studs of silver.</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> The Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-12"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>While the king <i>is</i> at his table,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-12">My <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>spikenard sends forth its fragrance.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>A bundle of myrrh <i>is</i> my beloved to me,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-13">That lies all night between my breasts.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>My beloved <i>is</i> to me a cluster of henna <i>blooms</i></span><br /><span class="text Song-1-14">In the vineyards of En Gedi.</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> The Beloved</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-15"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, you <i>are</i> fair, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[j]</a></span>my love!</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-15">Behold, you <i>are</i> fair!</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-15">You <i>have</i> dove’s eyes.</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> The Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-1-16"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Behold, you <i>are</i> handsome, my beloved!</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-16">Yes, pleasant!</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-16">Also our <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[k]</a></span>bed <i>is</i> green.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The beams of our houses <i>are</i> cedar,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-17"><i>And</i> our rafters of fir.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-17540a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:2">Song of Solomon 1:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>A young woman from the town of Shulam or Shunem, <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Song.6.13" href="/passage/?search=Song.6.13&version=NKJV">Song 6:13</span>. The speaker and audience are identified according to the number, gender, and person of the Hebrew words. Occasionally the identity is not certain.</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17540b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:2">Song of Solomon 1:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Masc. sing.: the Beloved</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17542c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:4">Song of Solomon 1:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Masc. sing.: the Beloved</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17542d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:4">Song of Solomon 1:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Fem. sing.: the Shulamite</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17544e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:6">Song of Solomon 1:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>looked upon me</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17545f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:7">Song of Solomon 1:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX, Syr., Vg. <i>wanders</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17546g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:8">Song of Solomon 1:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>Go out</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17549h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:11">Song of Solomon 1:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Fem. sing.: the Shulamite</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17550i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:12">Song of Solomon 1:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>perfume</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17553j"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:15">Song of Solomon 1:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>my companion, friend</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17554k"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:16">Song of Solomon 1:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>couch</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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