2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth –for your love is more delightful than wine.
3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;your name is like perfume poured out.No wonder the young women love you!
4 Take me away with you – let us hurry!Let the king bring me into his chambers.We rejoice and delight in you;we will praise your love more than wine.How right they are to adore you!
5 Dark am I, yet lovely,daughters of Jerusalem,dark like the tents of Kedar,like the tent curtains of Solomon.
6 Do not stare at me because I am dark,because I am darkened by the sun.My mother’s sons were angry with meand made me take care of the vineyards;my own vineyard I had to neglect.
7 Tell me, you whom I love,where you graze your flockand where you rest your sheep at midday.Why should I be like a veiled womanbeside the flocks of your friends?
8 If you do not know, most beautiful of women,follow the tracks of the sheepand graze your young goatsby the tents of the shepherds.