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Perfume emptied out—your name, "" Therefore have virgins loved you!<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Draw me: we run after you, "" The king has brought me into his inner chambers, "" We delight and rejoice in you, "" We mention your loves more than wine, "" Uprightly they have loved you!<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I [am] dark and lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, as tents of Kedar, as curtains of Solomon.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Do not fear me, because I [am] very dark, "" Because the sun has scorched me, "" The sons of my mother were angry with me, "" They made me keeper of the vineyards, "" My vineyard—my own—I have not kept.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Declare to me, you whom my soul has loved, "" Where you delight, "" Where you lie down at noon, "" For why am I as one veiled, "" By the ranks of your companions?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If you do not know, "" O beautiful among women, "" Go forth by the traces of the flock, "" And feed your kids by the shepherds’ dwellings!<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>To my joyous one in chariots of Pharaoh, I have compared you, my friend,<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Your cheeks have been lovely with garlands, your neck with chains.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>We make garlands of gold for you, with studs of silver!<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>While the king [is] in his circle, "" My spikenard has given its fragrance.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>A bundle of myrrh [is] my beloved to me, "" Between my breasts it lodges.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>A cluster of cypress [is] my beloved to me, "" In the vineyards of En-Gedi!<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, you [are] beautiful, my friend, "" Behold, you [are] beautiful, your eyes [are] doves!<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Behold, you [are] beautiful, my love, indeed, pleasant, "" Indeed, our bed [is] green,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The beams of our houses [are] cedars, "" Our rafters [are] firs, I [am] a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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