Canticle of Canticles 1

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Bride: "May he kiss me with the kiss of his mouth."	1 The song of songs, which is Solomon's.
2 Groom to Bride: "So much better than wine are your breasts, fragranced with the finest perfumes."	2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
3 Bride to Groom: "Your name is oil that has been poured out; therefore, the maidens have loved you. Draw me forward."	3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
4 Chorus to Bride: "We will run after you in the odor of your perfumes."	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 Bride to Chorus: "The king has led me into his storerooms."	5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
6 Chorus to Bride: "We will exult and rejoice in you, remembering your breasts above wine."	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 Groom to Bride: "The righteous love you."	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 Bride to Chorus: "O daughters of Jerusalem: I am black, but shapely, like the tabernacles of Kedar, like the tents of Solomon."	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 "Do not be concerned that I am dark, for the sun has changed my color."	9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
10 "The sons of my mother have fought against me. They have made me the keeper of the vineyards. My own vineyard I have not kept."	10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
11 Bride to Groom: "Reveal to me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture, where you recline at midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of your companions."	11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
12 Groom to Bride: "If you yourself do not know, O most beautiful among women, then go out and follow after the steps of the flocks, and pasture your young goats beside the tabernacles of the shepherds."	12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
13 "O my love, I have compared you to my company of horsemen against the chariots of Pharaoh."	13 A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
14 "Your cheeks are beautiful, like those of a turtledove. Your neck is like a bejeweled collar."	14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.
15 Chorus to Bride: "We will fashion for you chains of gold, accented with reddened silver."	15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
16 Groom to Bride: "The timbers of our houses are of cedar; our ceilings are of cypress."	16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
	17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.