“Your (A)oils have a pleasing fragrance,
Your (B)name is like [a]purified oil;
Therefore the [b](C)maidens love you.
“Draw me after you and let us run together!
The (D)king has brought me into his chambers.”

[c]We will rejoice in you and be glad;
We will [d]extol your (E)love more than wine.
Rightly do they love you.”

[e]I am black but (F)lovely,
O (G)daughters of Jerusalem,
Like the (H)tents of (I)Kedar,
Like the curtains of Solomon.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 1:3 Lit oil which is emptied (from one vessel to another)
  2. Song of Solomon 1:3 Or virgins
  3. Song of Solomon 1:4 CHORUS
  4. Song of Solomon 1:4 Lit mention with praise
  5. Song of Solomon 1:5 BRIDE

Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;(A)
    your name(B) is like perfume poured out.
    No wonder the young women(C) love you!
Take me away with you—let us hurry!
    Let the king bring me into his chambers.(D)

Friends

We rejoice and delight(E) in you[a];
    we will praise your love(F) more than wine.

She

How right they are to adore you!

Dark am I, yet lovely,(G)
    daughters of Jerusalem,(H)
dark like the tents of Kedar,(I)
    like the tent curtains of Solomon.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 1:4 The Hebrew is masculine singular.
  2. Song of Songs 1:5 Or Salma