1 Solomon’s Song of Songs.
2 Kiss me with the kisses of your mouth,because your love is better than wine.
3 The smell of your perfume is pleasant,and your name is pleasant like expensive perfume.That’s why the young women love you.
4 Take me with you; let’s run together.The king takes me into his rooms.We will rejoice and be happy with you;we praise your love more than wine.With good reason, the young women love you.
5 I’m dark but lovely,women of Jerusalem,dark like the tents of Kedar,like the curtains of Solomon.
6 Don’t look at how dark I am,at how dark the sun has made me.My brothers were angry with meand made me tend the vineyards,so I haven’t tended my own vineyard!
7 Tell me, you whom I love,where do you feed your sheep?Where do you let them rest at noon?Why should I look for you near your friend’s sheep,like a woman who wears a veil?