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        better than the fragrance of cologne.
            (Cologne should be named after you.)
    No wonder the young women love you!
Take me with you. Let’s run away.
    The king has brought me into his private rooms.

[The chorus of young women]

    We will celebrate and rejoice with you.
    We will praise your expressions of love more than wine.
    How right it is that the young women love you!

[Bride]

Young women of Jerusalem, I am dark and lovely
    like Kedar’s tents,
    like Solomon’s curtains.

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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