| 1 | Solomon's Song of Songs. | |
| 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 maidens 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, O 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 me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I have neglected. | |
| 7 | Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends? | |
| 8 | If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats by the tents of the shepherds. | |
| 9 | I liken you, my darling, to a mare harnessed to one of the chariots of Pharaoh. | |
| 10 | Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels. | |
| 11 | We will make you earrings of gold, studded with silver. | |
| 12 | While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance. | |
| 13 | My lover is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts. | |
| 14 | My lover is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. | |
| 15 | How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves. | |
| 16 | How handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant. | |
| 17 | The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are firs. | |