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<title>Song of Solomon — World English Bible Updated</title>
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<article class="book" data-template="book" id="SNG" data-book="SNG" data-name="Song of Solomon" data-section="ot">
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<header class="book-header">
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<h1><span class="mt">The Song of Solomon</span></h1>
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<nav class="chapter-nav" aria-label="Chapters" hx-boost="false">
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#ch1">1</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch2">2</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch3">3</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch4">4</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch5">5</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch6">6</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch7">7</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch8">8</a></li>
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</ul>
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</nav>
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<p class="home"><a href="index.html">All books</a></p>
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</header>
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<div class="chapters">
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<section class="chapter" id="ch1" data-chapter="1">
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<h2 class="chapter-number">1</h2>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v1_1">1</span> The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.</p>
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<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_2">2</span> Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for your love is better than wine.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_3">3</span> Your oils have a pleasing fragrance.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your name is oil poured out,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">therefore the virgins love you.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_4">4</span> Take me away with you.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let’s hurry.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The king has brought me into his rooms.</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Friends</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">We will be glad and rejoice in you.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We will praise your love more than wine!</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">They are right to love you.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_5">5</span> I am dark, but lovely,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you daughters of Jerusalem,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like Kedar’s tents,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like Solomon’s curtains.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_6">6</span> Don’t stare at me because I am dark,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because the sun has scorched me.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">My mother’s sons were angry with me.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They made me keeper of the vineyards.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I haven’t kept my own vineyard.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_7">7</span> Tell me, you whom my soul loves,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">where you graze your flock,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">where you rest them at noon;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for why should I be as one who is veiled</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">beside the flocks of your companions?</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Lover</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_8">8</span> If you don’t know, most beautiful among women,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">follow the tracks of the sheep.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_9">9</span> I have compared you, my love,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_10">10</span> Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your neck with strings of jewels.</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Friends</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_11">11</span> We will make you earrings of gold,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with studs of silver.</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_12">12</span> While the king sat at his table,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my perfume spread its fragrance.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_13">13</span> My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that lies between my breasts.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_14">14</span> My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from the vineyards of En Gedi.</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Lover</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_15">15</span> Behold,<a class="noteref" id="fnref1_1" href="#fn1_1"><sup>*</sup></a> you are beautiful, my love.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Behold, you are beautiful.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your eyes are like doves.</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_16">16</span> Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and our couch is verdant.</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Lover</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_17">17</span> The beams of our house are cedars.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Our rafters are firs.</p>
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</div>
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<section class="footnotes">
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<h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
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<ol>
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<li class="note" id="fn1_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref1_1">1:15</a> <span class="ft">“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</span></li>
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</ol>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section class="chapter" id="ch2" data-chapter="2">
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<h2 class="chapter-number">2</h2>
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<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_1">1</span> I am a rose of Sharon,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a lily of the valleys.</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Lover</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_2">2</span> As a lily among thorns,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so is my love among the daughters.</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_3">3</span> As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so is my beloved among the sons.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">I sat down under his shadow with great delight,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his fruit was sweet to my taste.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_4">4</span> He brought me to the banquet hall.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His banner over me is love.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_5">5</span> Strengthen me with raisins,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">refresh me with apples;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I am faint with love.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_6">6</span> His left hand is under my head.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His right hand embraces me.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_7">7</span> I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that you not stir up, nor awaken love,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">until it so desires.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_8">8</span> The voice of my beloved!</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Behold, he comes,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">leaping on the mountains,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">skipping on the hills.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_9">9</span> My beloved is like a roe or a young deer.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Behold, he stands behind our wall!</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He looks in at the windows.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He glances through the lattice.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_10">10</span> My beloved spoke, and said to me,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_11">11</span> For behold, the winter is past.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The rain is over and gone.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_12">12</span> The flowers appear on the earth.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The time of the singing has come,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_13">13</span> The fig tree ripens her green figs.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The vines are in blossom.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They give out their fragrance.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Arise, my love, my beautiful one,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and come away.”</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Lover</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_14">14</span> My dove in the clefts of the rock,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the hiding places of the mountainside,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">let me see your face.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let me hear your voice;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_15">15</span> Catch for us the foxes,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the little foxes that plunder the vineyards;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for our vineyards are in blossom.</p>
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</div>
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<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_16">16</span> My beloved is mine, and I am his.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He browses among the lilies.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_17">17</span> Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">turn, my beloved,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.</p>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="chapter" id="ch3" data-chapter="3">
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<h2 class="chapter-number">3</h2>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v3_1">1</span> By night on my bed,</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I sought him whom my soul loves.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I sought him, but I didn’t find him.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_2">2</span> I will get up now, and go about the city;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I sought him, but I didn’t find him.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_3">3</span> The watchmen who go about the city found me;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_4">4</span> I had scarcely passed from them,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when I found him whom my soul loves.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">I held him, and would not let him go,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">until I had brought him into my mother’s house,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">into the room of her who conceived me.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_5">5</span> I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that you not stir up nor awaken love,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">until it so desires.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_6">6</span> Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with all spices of the merchant?</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_7">7</span> Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage!</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sixty mighty men are around it,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">of the mighty men of Israel.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_8">8</span> They all handle the sword, and are expert in war.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Every man has his sword on his thigh,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of fear in the night.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_9">9</span> King Solomon made himself a carriage</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">of the wood of Lebanon.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_10">10</span> He made its pillars of silver,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">its bottom of gold, its seat of purple,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the middle of it being paved with love,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from the daughters of Jerusalem.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_11">11</span> Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with the crown with which his mother has crowned him,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the day of his weddings,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the day of the gladness of his heart.</p>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="chapter" id="ch4" data-chapter="4">
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<h2 class="chapter-number">4</h2>
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<p class="sp">Lover</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v4_1">1</span> Behold, you are beautiful, my love.</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Behold, you are beautiful.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Your eyes are like doves behind your veil.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your hair is as a flock of goats,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that descend from Mount Gilead.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_2">2</span> Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which have come up from the washing,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">where every one of them has twins.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">None is bereaved among them.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_3">3</span> Your lips are like scarlet thread.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your mouth is lovely.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_4">4</span> Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">on which a thousand shields hang,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">all the shields of the mighty men.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_5">5</span> Your two breasts are like two fawns</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that are twins of a roe,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which feed among the lilies.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_6">6</span> Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will go to the mountain of myrrh,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to the hill of frankincense.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_7">7</span> You are all beautiful, my love.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no spot in you.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_8">8</span> Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with me from Lebanon.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Look from the top of Amana,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from the top of Senir and Hermon,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from the lions’ dens,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from the mountains of the leopards.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_9">9</span> You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with one chain of your neck.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_10">10</span> How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">How much better is your love than wine,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_11">11</span> Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Honey and milk are under your tongue.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_12">12</span> My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden;</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a locked up spring,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a sealed fountain.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_13">13</span> Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">henna with spikenard plants,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v4_14">14</span> spikenard and saffron,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree;</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v4_15">15</span> a fountain of gardens,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a well of living waters,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">flowing streams from Lebanon.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_16">16</span> Awake, north wind, and come, you south!</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Let my beloved come into his garden,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and taste his precious fruits.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section class="chapter" id="ch5" data-chapter="5">
|
||
<h2 class="chapter-number">5</h2>
|
||
<p class="sp">Lover</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_1">1</span> I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have drunk my wine with my milk.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Friends</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Eat, friends!</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_2">2</span> I was asleep, but my heart was awake.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It is the voice of my beloved who knocks:</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled;</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for my head is filled with dew,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and my hair with the dampness of the night.”</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_3">3</span> I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on?</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_4">4</span> My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My heart pounded for him.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_5">5</span> I rose up to open for my beloved.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My hands dripped with myrrh,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my fingers with liquid myrrh,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">on the handles of the lock.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_6">6</span> I opened to my beloved;</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but my beloved left, and had gone away.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">My heart went out when he spoke.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I looked for him, but I didn’t find him.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I called him, but he didn’t answer.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_7">7</span> The watchmen who go about the city found me.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They beat me.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They bruised me.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_8">8</span> I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">If you find my beloved,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that you tell him that I am faint with love.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Friends</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_9">9</span> How is your beloved better than another beloved,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you fairest among women?</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">How is your beloved better than another beloved,</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">that you do so adjure us?</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_10">10</span> My beloved is white and ruddy.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The best among ten thousand.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_11">11</span> His head is like the purest gold.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His hair is bushy, black as a raven.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_12">12</span> His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">washed with milk, mounted like jewels.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_13">13</span> His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_14">14</span> His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_15">15</span> His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_16">16</span> His mouth is sweetness;</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, he is altogether lovely.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">This is my beloved, and this is my friend,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">daughters of Jerusalem.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section class="chapter" id="ch6" data-chapter="6">
|
||
<h2 class="chapter-number">6</h2>
|
||
<p class="sp">Friends</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_1">1</span> Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women?</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_2">2</span> My beloved has gone down to his garden,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to the beds of spices,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_3">3</span> I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He browses among the lilies.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Lover</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_4">4</span> You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">lovely as Jerusalem,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">awesome as an army with banners.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_5">5</span> Turn away your eyes from me,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for they have overcome me.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Your hair is like a flock of goats,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that lie along the side of Gilead.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_6">6</span> Your teeth are like a flock of ewes,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which have come up from the washing,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">of which every one has twins;</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">not one is bereaved among them.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_7">7</span> Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_8">8</span> There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and virgins without number.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_9">9</span> My dove, my perfect one, is unique.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">She is her mother’s only daughter.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">She is the favorite one of her who bore her.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">The daughters saw her, and called her blessed.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_10">10</span> Who is she who looks out as the morning,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">beautiful as the moon,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">clear as the sun,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and awesome as an army with banners?</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_11">11</span> I went down into the nut tree grove,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to see the green plants of the valley,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to see whether the vine budded,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the pomegranates were in flower.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_12">12</span> Without realizing it,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Friends</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_13">13</span> Return, return, Shulammite!</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Return, return, that we may gaze at you.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Lover</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as at the dance of Mahanaim?</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section class="chapter" id="ch7" data-chapter="7">
|
||
<h2 class="chapter-number">7</h2>
|
||
<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v7_1">1</span> How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter!</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your rounded thighs are like jewels,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the work of the hands of a skillful workman.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_2">2</span> Your body is like a round goblet,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">no mixed wine is wanting.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Your waist is like a heap of wheat,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">set about with lilies.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_3">3</span> Your two breasts are like two fawns,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that are twins of a roe.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_4">4</span> Your neck is like an ivory tower.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_5">5</span> Your head on you is like Carmel.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The hair of your head like purple.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The king is held captive in its tresses.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_6">6</span> How beautiful and how pleasant you are,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">love, for delights!</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_7">7</span> This, your stature, is like a palm tree,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your breasts like its fruit.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_8">8</span> I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will take hold of its fruit.”</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the smell of your breath like apples.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_9">9</span> Your mouth is like the best wine,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that goes down smoothly for my beloved,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_10">10</span> I am my beloved’s.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His desire is toward me.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_11">11</span> Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let’s lodge in the villages.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_12">12</span> Let’s go early up to the vineyards.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let’s see whether the vine has budded,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">its blossom is open,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the pomegranates are in flower.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There I will give you my love.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_13">13</span> The mandrakes produce fragrance.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which I have stored up for you, my beloved.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section class="chapter" id="ch8" data-chapter="8">
|
||
<h2 class="chapter-number">8</h2>
|
||
<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v8_1">1</span> Oh that you were like my brother,</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who nursed from the breasts of my mother!</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">If I found you outside, I would kiss you;</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, and no one would despise me.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_2">2</span> I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who would instruct me.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">I would have you drink spiced wine,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">of the juice of my pomegranate.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_3">3</span> His left hand would be under my head.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His right hand would embrace me.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_4">4</span> I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that you not stir up, nor awaken love,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">until it so desires.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Friends</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_5">5</span> Who is this who comes up from the wilderness,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">leaning on her beloved?</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Under the apple tree I awakened you.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There your mother conceived you.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There she was in labor and bore you.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_6">6</span> Set me as a seal on your heart,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as a seal on your arm;</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for love is strong as death.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.<a class="noteref" id="fnref8_1" href="#fn8_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Its flashes are flashes of fire,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a very flame of the LORD.<a class="noteref" id="fnref8_2" href="#fn8_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_7">7</span> Many waters can’t quench love,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither can floods drown it.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love,</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he would be utterly scorned.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="sp">Brothers</p>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_8">8</span> We have a little sister.</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">She has no breasts.</p>
|
||
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">What shall we do for our sister</p>
|
||
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the day when she is to be spoken for?</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_9">9</span> If she is a wall,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">we will build on her a turret of silver.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">If she is a door,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">we will enclose her with boards of cedar.</p>
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<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_10">10</span> I am a wall, and my breasts like towers,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_11">11</span> Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He leased out the vineyard to keepers.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Each was to bring a thousand shekels<a class="noteref" id="fnref8_3" href="#fn8_3"><sup>‡</sup></a> of silver for its fruit.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_12">12</span> My own vineyard is before me.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The thousand are for you, Solomon,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">two hundred for those who tend its fruit.</p>
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<p class="sp">Lover</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_13">13</span> You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">let me hear your voice!</p>
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<p class="sp">Beloved</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_14">14</span> Come away, my beloved!</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!</p>
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<h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
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<li class="note" id="fn8_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref8_1">8:6</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
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<li class="note" id="fn8_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref8_2">8:6</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
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<li class="note" id="fn8_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref8_3">8:11</a> <span class="ft">A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or about 22 pounds.</span></li>
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