Canticle of Canticles 1

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Solomon's Song of Songs:	1 The song of songs, which is Solomon's.
2 BELOVED: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love-making is sweeter than wine;	2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
3 delicate is the fragrance of your perfume, your name is an oil poured out, and that is why girls love you.	3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
4 Draw me in your footsteps, let us run. The king has brought me into his rooms; you wil be our joy andour gladness. We shal praise your love more than wine; how right it is to love you.	4 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.
5 BELOVED: I am black but lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the pavilions of Salmah.	5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
6 Take no notice of my dark colouring, it is the sun that has burnt me. My mother's sons turned their angeron me, they made me look after the vineyards. My own vineyard I had not looked after!	6 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.
7 Tel me then, sweetheart, where wil you lead your flock to graze, where will you rest it at noon? That Imay no more wander like a vagabond beside the flocks of your companions.	7 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?
8 CHORUS: If you do not know this, O loveliest of women, fol ow the tracks of the flock, and take your kidsto graze close by the shepherds' tents.	8 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.
9 LOVER: I compare you, my love, to my mare harnessed to Pharaoh's chariot.	9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
10 Your cheeks show fair between their pendants and your neck within its necklaces.	10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
11 We shall make you golden earrings and beads of silver.	11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
12 DUO: -While the king rests in his own room my nard yields its perfume.	12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
13 My love is a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts.	13 A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
14 My love is a cluster of henna flowers among the vines of En-Gedi.	14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.
15 -How beautiful you are, my beloved, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are doves.	15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
16 -How beautiful you are, my love, and how you delight me! Our bed is the greensward.	16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
17 -The beams of our house are cedar trees, its panel ing the cypress.	17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.