Song of Solomon

2* Let him give me kisses from his mouth,

for your love is better than wine.

3** Your oils are good to smell;

your name is Turak oil;

therefore the girls love you.

4*** Draw me after you; we will run;

bring me into your chambers, king!

We will be gay and glad in you;

we think more of your love than of wine;

rightly they love you.

5** I am dark but handsome, daughters of Jerusalem,

like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

6* Do not notice how dark I am,

how the sun has taken a look at me;

My mother’s sons were cross with me,

set me to watch the vineyards;

my own vineyard I did not watch.

7* Tell me, you whom my soul loves,

where you are pasturing your flock,

where you are having them lie down at noon;

Why should I be like a girl wandering at random

by your comrades’ flocks?

8 —If you do not know,

most beautiful among women,

Go out on the track of the sheep

and pasture your kids by the shepherds’ tents.

9* To a pony in the Pharaoh’s chariots

I liken you, sweetheart.

10 How handsome your cheeks with face-chains,

your neck with beads!

11 We will make you gold face-chains

with silver studs.

12* —While the king was at his table

my nard gave its scent.

13 My truelove is to me the package of myrrh

lying between my breasts through the night.

14 My truelove is to me a cluster of henna-flowers

in the vineyards of ʽEn-Gedi.

15 —Ah, you are beautiful, sweetheart,

ah, you are beautiful, your eyes are doves.

16 —Ah, you are beautiful, truelove,

winsome too; our couch too is verdant.

17* The beams of our house are cedars,

our rafters are cypresses.