11 The song of songs which is Solomon's .
12 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for thy love
is better than wine .
13 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as
ointment poured forth therefore do the virgins love thee .
14 Draw me we will run after thee the king hath brought me
into his chambers we will be glad and rejoice in thee we will
remember thy love more than wine the upright love thee .
15 I am black but comely O ye daughters of Jerusalem as the
tents of Kedar as the curtains of Solomon .
16 Look not upon me because I am black because the sun hath
looked upon me my mother's children were angry with me they made
me the keeper of the vineyards but mine own vineyard have I not
kept .
17 Tell me O thou whom my soul loveth where thou feedest where
thou makest thy flock to rest at noon for why should I be as one
that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions .
18 If thou know not O thou fairest among women go thy way
forth by the footsteps of the flock and feed thy kids beside the
shepherds' tents .
19 I have compared thee O my love to a company of horses in
Pharaoh's chariots .
110 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels thy neck with
chains of gold .
111 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver .
112 While the king sitteth at his table my spikenard sendeth
forth the smell thereof .
113 A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me he shall lie
all night betwixt my breasts .
114 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the
vineyards of Engedi .
115 Behold thou art fair my love behold thou art fair thou
hast doves' eyes .
116 Behold thou art fair my beloved yea pleasant also our bed
is green .
117 The beams of our house are cedar and our rafters of fir .
* 21 I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys .
22 As the lily among thorns so is my love among the daughters .
23 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood so is my
beloved among the sons I sat down under his shadow with great
delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste .
24 He brought me to the banqueting house and his banner over
me was love .
25 Stay me with flagons comfort me with apples for I am sick
of love .
26 His left hand is under my head and his right hand doth
embrace me .
27 I charge you O ye daughters of Jerusalem by the roes and by
the hinds of the field that ye stir not up nor awake my love
till he please .
28 The voice of my beloved behold he cometh leaping upon the
mountains skipping upon the hills .
29 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart behold he standeth
behind our wall he looketh forth at the windows showing himself
through the lattice .
210 My beloved spake and said unto me Rise up my love my fair
one and come away .
211 For lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone .
212 The flowers appear on the earth the time of the singing of
birds is come and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land .
213 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs and the vines
with the tender grape give a good smell Arise my love my fair
one and come away .
214 O my dove that art in the clefts of the rock in the secret
places of the stairs let me see thy countenance let me hear thy
voice for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely .
215 Take us the foxes the little foxes that spoil the vines
for our vines have tender grapes .
216 My beloved is mine and I am his he feedeth among the
lilies .
217 Until the day break and the shadows flee away turn my
beloved and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the
mountains of Bether .
* 31 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth I
sought him but I found him not .
32 I will rise now and go about the city in the streets and in
the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth I sought him
but I found him not .
33 The watchmen that go about the city found me to whom I said
Saw ye him whom my soul loveth .
34 It was but a little that I passed from them but I found him
whom my soul loveth I held him and would not let him go until I
had brought him into my mother's house and into the chamber of
her that conceived me .
35 I charge you O ye daughters of Jerusalem by the roes and by
the hinds of the field that ye stir not up nor awake my love
till he please .
36 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars
of smoke perfumed with myrrh and frankincense with all powders
of the merchant .
37 Behold his bed which is Solomon's threescore valiant men
are about it of the valiant of Israel .
38 They all hold swords being expert in war every man hath his
sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night .
39 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon .
310 He made the pillars thereof of silver the bottom thereof
of gold the covering of it of purple the midst thereof being
paved with love for the daughters of Jerusalem .
311 Go forth O ye daughters of Zion and behold king Solomon
with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of
his espousals and in the day of the gladness of his heart .
* 41 Behold thou art fair my love behold thou art fair thou
hast doves' eyes within thy locks thy hair is as a flock of
goats that appear from mount Gilead .
42 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn
which came up from the washing whereof every one bear twins and
none is barren among them .
43 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet and thy speech is
comely thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy
locks .
44 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury
whereon there hang a thousand bucklers all shields of mighty men
.
45 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins
which feed among the lilies .
46 Until the day break and the shadows flee away I will get me
to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense .
47 Thou art all fair my love there is no spot in thee .
48 Come with me from Lebanon my spouse with me from Lebanon
look from the top of Amana from the top of Shenir and Hermon
from the lions' dens from the mountains of the leopards .
49 Thou hast ravished my heart my sister my spouse thou hast
ravished my heart with one of thine eyes with one chain of thy
neck .
410 How fair is thy love my sister my spouse how much better
is thy love than wine and the smell of thine ointments than all
spices .
411 Thy lips O my spouse drop as the honeycomb honey and milk
are under thy tongue and the smell of thy garments is like the
smell of Lebanon .
412 A garden enclosed is my sister my spouse a spring shut up
a fountain sealed .
413 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant
fruits camphire with spikenard .
414 Spikenard and saffron calamus and cinnamon with all trees
of frankincense myrrh and aloes with all the chief spices .
415 A fountain of gardens a well of living waters and streams
from Lebanon .
416 Awake O north wind and come thou south blow upon my garden
that the spices thereof may flow out Let my beloved come into
his garden and eat his pleasant fruits .
* 51 I am come into my garden my sister my spouse I have
gathered my myrrh with my spice I have eaten my honeycomb with
my honey I have drunk my wine with my milk eat O friends drink
yea drink abundantly O beloved .
52 I sleep but my heart waketh it is the voice of my beloved
that knocketh saying Open to me my sister my love my dove my
undefiled for my head is filled with dew and my locks with the
drops of the night .
53 I have put off my coat how shall I put it on I have washed
my feet how shall I defile them .
54 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door and my
bowels were moved for him .
55 I rose up to open to my beloved and my hands dropped with
myrrh and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh upon the handles
of the lock .
56 I opened to my beloved but my beloved had withdrawn himself
and was gone my soul failed when he spake I sought him but I
could not find him I called him but he gave me no answer .
57 The watchmen that went about the city found me they smote
me they wounded me the keepers of the walls took away my veil
from me .
58 I charge you O daughters of Jerusalem if ye find my beloved
that ye tell him that I am sick of love .
59 What is thy beloved more than another beloved O thou
fairest among women what is thy beloved more than another
beloved that thou dost so charge us .
510 My beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten
thousand .
511 His head is as the most fine gold his locks are bushy and
black as a raven .
512 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters
washed with milk and fitly set .
513 His cheeks are as a bed of spices as sweet flowers his
lips like lilies dropping sweet smelling myrrh .
514 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl his belly
is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires .
515 His legs are as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine
gold his countenance is as Lebanon excellent as the cedars .
516 His mouth is most sweet yea he is altogether lovely This
is my beloved and this is my friend O daughters of Jerusalem .
* 61 Whither is thy beloved gone O thou fairest among women
whither is thy beloved turned aside that we may seek him with
thee .
62 My beloved is gone down into his garden to the beds of
spices to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies .
63 I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine he feedeth among
the lilies .
64 Thou art beautiful O my love as Tirzah comely as Jerusalem
terrible as an army with banners .
65 Turn away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me thy
hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead .
66 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the
washing whereof every one beareth twins and there is not one
barren among them .
67 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy
locks .
68 There are threescore queens and fourscore concubines and
virgins without number .
69 My dove my undefiled is but one she is the only one of her
mother she is the choice one of her that bare her The daughters
saw her and blessed her yea the queens and the concubines and
they praised her .
610 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning fair as the
moon clear as the sun and terrible as an army with banners .
611 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of
the valley and to see whether the vine flourished and the
pomegranates budded .
612 Or ever I was aware my soul made me like the chariots of
Amminadib .
613 Return return O Shulamite return return that we may look
upon thee What will ye see in the Shulamite As it were the
company of two armies .
* 71 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes O prince's daughter
the joints of thy thighs are like jewels the work of the hands
of a cunning workman .
72 Thy navel is like a round goblet which wanteth not liquor
thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies .
73 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins .
74 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory thine eyes like the
fishpools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim thy nose is as
the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus .
75 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel and the hair of thine
head like purple the king is held in the galleries .
76 How fair and how pleasant art thou O love for delights .
77 This thy stature is like to a palm tree and thy breasts to
clusters of grapes .
78 I said I will go up to the palm tree I will take hold of
the boughs thereof now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of
the vine and the smell of thy nose like apples .
79 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved
that goeth down sweetly causing the lips of those that are
asleep to speak .
710 I am my beloved's and his desire is toward me .
711 Come my beloved let us go forth into the field let us
lodge in the villages .
712 Let us get up early to the vineyards let us see if the
vine flourish whether the tender grape appear and the
pomegranates bud forth there will I give thee my loves .
713 The mandrakes give a smell and at our gates are all manner
of pleasant fruits new and old which I have laid up for thee O
my beloved .
* 81 O that thou wert as my brother that sucked the breasts of
my mother when I should find thee without I would kiss thee yea
I should not be despised .
82 I would lead thee and bring thee into my mother's house who
would instruct me I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of
the juice of my pomegranate .
83 His left hand should be under my head and his right hand
should embrace me .
84 I charge you O daughters of Jerusalem that ye stir not up
nor awake my love until he please .
85 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness leaning upon
her beloved I raised thee up under the apple tree there thy
mother brought thee forth there she brought thee forth that bare
thee .
86 Set me as a seal upon thine heart as a seal upon thine arm
for love is strong as death jealousy is cruel as the grave the
coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame
.
87 Many waters cannot quench love neither can the floods drown
it if a man would give all the substance of his house for love
it would utterly be contemned .
88 We have a little sister and she hath no breasts what shall
we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for .
89 If she be a wall we will build upon her a palace of silver
and if she be a door we will enclose her with boards of cedar .
810 I am a wall and my breasts like towers then was I in his
eyes as one that found favour .
811 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon he let out the
vineyard unto keepers every one for the fruit thereof was to
bring a thousand pieces of silver .
812 My vineyard which is mine is before me thou O Solomon must
have a thousand and those that keep the fruit thereof two
hundred .
813 Thou that dwellest in the gardens the companions hearken
to thy voice cause me to hear it .
814 Make haste my beloved and be thou like to a roe or to a
young hart upon the mountains of spices .
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