Song of Songs 1
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Solomon’s Finest Song. # Or The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s # 1Kg 4:32
W # The W, M, Y, N, and B indicate the editors’ opinions of the changes of speakers: W = Woman, M = Man, Y = Young women of Jerusalem, N = Narrator, B = Brothers. If a letter is in parenthesis (W), there is a question about the identity of the speaker.
2Oh, that he would kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
For your # Unexpected change of grammatical persons, here from he and his to your, is a Hb poetic device. love is # Or your caresses are, or your lovemaking is more delightful than wine. # Sg 4:10
3The fragrance of your perfume is intoxicating; # Jn 12:3
your name is perfume poured out. # Ec 7:1
No wonder young women # Or wonder virgins adore you.
4Take me with you # Hs 11:4 — let us hurry.
Oh, that the king would bring # Or The king has brought me to his chambers.
Y
We will rejoice and be glad for you;
we will praise your love more than wine.
W
It is only right that they adore you.
5Daughters of Jerusalem, # Sg 2:7; 3:5,10; 5:8,16; 8:4
I am dark like the tents of Kedar, # Ps 120:5; Is 60:7
yet lovely # Sg 2:14; 4:3; 6:4 like the curtains of Solomon.
6Do not stare at me because I am dark,
for the sun has gazed on me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me; # Ps 69:8
they made me a keeper of the vineyards. # Sg 8:11
I have not kept my own vineyard. # Lit my vineyard, which is mine
7Tell me, you, the one I love: # Sg 3:1-4
Where do you pasture your sheep? # Sg 2:16; 6:3
Where do you let them rest at noon? # Is 13:20; Jr 33:12
Why should I be like one who veils herself # Or who wanders # To express shame or grief, or to conceal identity as a prostitute would; Gn 38:14-15
beside the flocks of your companions? # Sg 8:13
M # Some understand the young women to be the speakers in this verse.
8If you do not know,
most beautiful of women, # Sg 5:9; 6:1
follow # Lit go out for yourself into the tracks of the flock,
and pasture your young goats
near the shepherds’ tents.
9I compare you, my darling, # Sg 1:15
to a # Lit my mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. # Pharaoh’s chariot horses were stallions. # 2Ch 1:16-17
10Your cheeks are beautiful with jewelry, # Sg 5:13
your neck with its necklace.
11We will make gold jewelry for you,
accented with silver.
W
12While the king is on his couch, # Or is at his table
my perfume # Lit nard releases its fragrance. # Sg 4:14; Mk 14:3; Jn 12:3
13My love is a sachet of myrrh to me, # Ps 45:8; Jn 19:39
spending the night between my breasts.
14My love is a cluster of henna blossoms to me, # Sg 4:13
in the vineyards of En-gedi. # = Wellspring of the Young Goat # 1Sm 23:29
M
15How beautiful you are, my darling.
How very beautiful!
Your eyes are doves. # Sg 4:1
W
16How handsome you are, my love. # Sg 2:3
How delightful!
Our bed is lush with foliage;
17the beams of our house are cedars,
and our rafters are cypresses. # Or firs, or pines
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Shir haShirim (Song of Songs) 1
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1The song of songs, which is Shelomoh’s.
2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, For your carnal-love are better than wine.
3For fragrance your oils are good. Your name is oil poured forth,#See Eccl. 7:1 Therefore the young women#See Explanatory Notes "Maiden" love you.
4Draw me! We run after you. The sovereign has brought me into his inner rooms. We exult and rejoice in you. We praise your carnal-love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.
5I am dark, but lovely, O daughters of Yerushalayim, Like the tents of Qĕḏar, Like the curtains of Shelomoh.
6Do not look upon me, because I am dark, Because the sun has tanned me. My mother’s sons were displeased with me. They made me the keeper of the vineyards, My own vineyard I have not kept.
7Make known to me, O you whom my being loves, Where you feed your flock, Where you make it rest at noon. For why should I be as one who is veiled Beside the flocks of your companions?
8If you do not know, O beautiful among women, Go in the footsteps of the flock, And feed your little goats beside the shepherds’ dwellings.
9I have compared you, my love, To my filly among Pharaoh’s chariots.
10Your cheeks are pretty with ornaments, Your neck with strings of beads.
11Let us make you ornaments of gold with studs of silver.
12While the sovereign is at his table, My nard shall give its fragrance.
13My beloved is a bundle of myrrh to me, Lying between my breasts.
14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blooms In the vineyards of Ěn Geḏi.
15See, you are beautiful, my love! See, you are beautiful! Your eyes are as doves.
16See, you are handsome, my beloved! Yes, pleasant! Also our bed is green.
17The beams of our houses are cedar, our rafters are of fir.
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