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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/songs/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.</p> <p class="heading">The Bride Confesses Her Love</p><span class="block-indent"><subheading class="speaker">She<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The translators have added speaker identifications based on the gender and number of the Hebrew words">a</a></sup></span></subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For your love is better than wine;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="indent">your anointing oils are fragrant;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">your name is oil poured out;</span><br /><span class="indent">therefore virgins love you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Draw me after you; let us run.</span><br /><span class="indent">The king has brought me into his chambers.</span></p><subheading class="speaker">Others</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">We will exult and rejoice in you;</span><br /><span class="indent">we will extol your love more than wine;</span><br /><span class="indent">rightly do they love you.</span></p> <subheading class="speaker">She</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I am very dark, but lovely,</span><br /><span class="indent">O daughters of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">like the tents of Kedar,</span><br /><span class="indent">like the curtains of Solomon.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Do not gaze at me because I am dark,</span><br /><span class="indent">because the sun has looked upon me.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">My mother’s sons were angry with me;</span><br /><span class="indent">they made me keeper of the vineyards,</span><br /><span class="indent">but my own vineyard I have not kept!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Tell me, you whom my soul loves,</span><br /><span class="indent">where you pasture your flock,</span><br /><span class="indent">where you make it lie down at noon;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for why should I be like one who veils herself</span><br /><span class="indent">beside the flocks of your companions?</span></p> <p class="heading">Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other</p><span class="block-indent"><subheading class="speaker">He</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If you do not know,</span><br /><span class="indent">O most beautiful among women,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">follow in the tracks of the flock,</span><br /><span class="indent">and pasture your young goats</span><br /><span class="indent">beside the shepherds’ tents.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I compare you, my love,</span><br /><span class="indent">to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,</span><br /><span class="indent">your neck with strings of jewels.</span></p> <subheading class="speaker">Others</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">We will make for you<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew for you is feminine singular">b</a></sup></span> ornaments of gold,</span><br /><span class="indent">studded with silver.</span></p> <subheading class="speaker">She</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">While the king was on his couch,</span><br /><span class="indent">my nard gave forth its fragrance.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh</span><br /><span class="indent">that lies between my breasts.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms</span><br /><span class="indent">in the vineyards of Engedi.</span></p> <subheading class="speaker">He</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, you are beautiful, my love;</span><br /><span class="indent">behold, you are beautiful;</span><br /><span class="indent">your eyes are doves.</span></p> <subheading class="speaker">She</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Our couch is green;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="indent">the beams of our house are cedar;</span><br /><span class="indent">our rafters are pine.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> The translators have added speaker identifications based on the gender and number of the Hebrew words<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> The Hebrew for <i class="catch-word">you</i> is feminine singular<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The 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