Song Of Solomon

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New English Translation

Song Of Solomon 1 New English Translation (NET)

Title/Superscription

1. Solomon’s Most Excellent Love Song.

The Desire for Love

2. Oh, how I wish youwould kiss me passionately!For your lovemaking is more delightfulthan wine.

3. The fragrance of your colognes is delightful;your name is like the finest perfume.No wonder the young women adore you!

4. Draw me after you; let us hurry!May the kingbring me into his bedroom chambers!We will rejoice and delight in you;we will praise your love more than wine.The Beloved to Her Lover:How rightlythe young women adore you!

The Country Maiden and the Daughters of Jerusalem

5. I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem,dark like the tents of Qedar,lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.

6. Do not stare at me because I am dark,for the sun has burned my skin.My brothers were angry with me;they made me the keeper of the vineyards.Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!

The Shepherd and the Shepherdess

7. Tell me, O you whom my heart loves,where do you pasture your sheep?Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat?Tell me lest I wander aroundbeside the flocks of your companions!

8. If you do not know, O most beautiful of women,simply follow the tracks of my flock,and pasture your little lambsbeside the tents of the shepherds.

The Beautiful Mare and the Fragrant Myrrh

9. O my beloved, you are like a mareamong Pharaoh’s stallions.

10. Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments;your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.

11. We will make for you gold ornamentsstudded with silver.

12. While the king was at his banqueting table,my nard gave forth its fragrance.

13. My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrhspending the night between my breasts.

14. My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossomsin the vineyards of En-Gedi.

Mutual Praise and Admiration

15. Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved!Oh, how beautiful you are!Your eyes are like doves!

16. Oh, how handsome you are, my lover!Oh, how delightful you are!The lush foliage is our canopied bed;

17. the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber;the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.