\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Song of Solomon}

{\MT The Song of Solomon



\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{2}Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;

\par }{\QB for your love is better than wine.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Your oils have a pleasing fragrance.

\par }{\QB Your name is oil poured out,

\par }{\QB therefore the virgins love you.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Take me away with you.

\par }{\QB Let’s hurry.

\par }{\QB The king has brought me into his rooms.

\par }{\SP Friends

\par }{\Q We will be glad and rejoice in you.

\par }{\QB We will praise your love more than wine!

\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q They are right to love you.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}I am dark, but lovely,

\par }{\QB you daughters of Jerusalem,

\par }{\QB like Kedar’s tents,

\par }{\QB like Solomon’s curtains.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Don’t stare at me because I am dark,

\par }{\QB because the sun has scorched me.

\par }{\Q My mother’s sons were angry with me.

\par }{\QB They made me keeper of the vineyards.

\par }{\QB I haven’t kept my own vineyard.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Tell me, you whom my soul loves,

\par }{\QB where you graze your flock,

\par }{\QB where you rest them at noon;

\par }{\QB for why should I be as one who is veiled

\par }{\QB beside the flocks of your companions?


\par }{\SP Lover

\par }{\Q \VS{8}If you don’t know, most beautiful among women,

\par }{\QB follow the tracks of the sheep.

\par }{\QB Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{9}I have compared you, my love,

\par }{\QB to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,

\par }{\QB your neck with strings of jewels.


\par }{\SP Friends

\par }{\Q \VS{11}We will make you earrings of gold,

\par }{\QB with studs of silver.


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{12}While the king sat at his table,

\par }{\QB my perfume spread its fragrance.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh,

\par }{\QB that lies between my breasts.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms

\par }{\QB from the vineyards of En Gedi.


\par }{\SP Lover

\par }{\Q \VS{15}Behold,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:15 }{\FT{“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.}}} you are beautiful, my love.

\par }{\QB Behold, you are beautiful.

\par }{\QB Your eyes are like doves.


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{16}Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant;

\par }{\QB and our couch is verdant.


\par }{\SP Lover

\par }{\Q \VS{17}The beams of our house are cedars.

\par }{\QB Our rafters are firs.




\par }\Chap{2}{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VerseOne{1}I am a rose of Sharon,

\par }{\QB a lily of the valleys.


\par }{\SP Lover

\par }{\Q \VS{2}As a lily among thorns,

\par }{\QB so is my love among the daughters.


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{3}As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,

\par }{\QB so is my beloved among the sons.

\par }{\Q I sat down under his shadow with great delight,

\par }{\QB his fruit was sweet to my taste.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}He brought me to the banquet hall.

\par }{\QB His banner over me is love.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Strengthen me with raisins,

\par }{\QB refresh me with apples;

\par }{\QB for I am faint with love.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}His left hand is under my head.

\par }{\QB His right hand embraces me.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,

\par }{\QB by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,

\par }{\QB that you not stir up, nor awaken love,

\par }{\QB until it so desires.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}The voice of my beloved!

\par }{\QB Behold, he comes,

\par }{\QB leaping on the mountains,

\par }{\QB skipping on the hills.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}My beloved is like a roe or a young deer.

\par }{\QB Behold, he stands behind our wall!

\par }{\Q He looks in at the windows.

\par }{\QB He glances through the lattice.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{10}My beloved spoke, and said to me,

\par }{\QB “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}For behold, the winter is past.

\par }{\QB The rain is over and gone.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}The flowers appear on the earth.

\par }{\QB The time of the singing has come,

\par }{\QB and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}The fig tree ripens her green figs.

\par }{\QB The vines are in blossom.

\par }{\QB They give out their fragrance.

\par }{\Q Arise, my love, my beautiful one,

\par }{\QB and come away.”


\par }{\SP Lover

\par }{\Q \VS{14}My dove in the clefts of the rock,

\par }{\QB in the hiding places of the mountainside,

\par }{\QB let me see your face.

\par }{\QB Let me hear your voice;

\par }{\QB for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Catch for us the foxes,

\par }{\QB the little foxes that plunder the vineyards;

\par }{\QB for our vineyards are in blossom.


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{16}My beloved is mine, and I am his.

\par }{\QB He browses among the lilies.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,

\par }{\QB turn, my beloved,

\par }{\QB and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.




\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}By night on my bed,

\par }{\QB I sought him whom my soul loves.

\par }{\QB I sought him, but I didn’t find him.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}I will get up now, and go about the city;

\par }{\QB in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves.

\par }{\QB I sought him, but I didn’t find him.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}The watchmen who go about the city found me;

\par }{\QB “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”


\par }{\Q \VS{4}I had scarcely passed from them,

\par }{\QB when I found him whom my soul loves.

\par }{\Q I held him, and would not let him go,

\par }{\QB until I had brought him into my mother’s house,

\par }{\QB into the room of her who conceived me.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,

\par }{\QB by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,

\par }{\QB that you not stir up nor awaken love,

\par }{\QB until it so desires.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke,

\par }{\QB perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,

\par }{\QB with all spices of the merchant?


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage!

\par }{\QB Sixty mighty men are around it,

\par }{\QB of the mighty men of Israel.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}They all handle the sword, and are expert in war.

\par }{\QB Every man has his sword on his thigh,

\par }{\QB because of fear in the night.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{9}King Solomon made himself a carriage

\par }{\QB of the wood of Lebanon.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}He made its pillars of silver,

\par }{\QB its bottom of gold, its seat of purple,

\par }{\QB the middle of it being paved with love,

\par }{\QB from the daughters of Jerusalem.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon,

\par }{\QB with the crown with which his mother has crowned him,

\par }{\QB in the day of his weddings,

\par }{\QB in the day of the gladness of his heart.




\par }\Chap{4}{\SP Lover

\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}Behold, you are beautiful, my love.

\par }{\QB Behold, you are beautiful.

\par }{\Q Your eyes are like doves behind your veil.

\par }{\QB Your hair is as a flock of goats,

\par }{\QB that descend from Mount Gilead.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock,

\par }{\QB which have come up from the washing,

\par }{\QB where every one of them has twins.

\par }{\QB None is bereaved among them.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Your lips are like scarlet thread.

\par }{\QB Your mouth is lovely.

\par }{\QB Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory,

\par }{\QB on which a thousand shields hang,

\par }{\QB all the shields of the mighty men.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Your two breasts are like two fawns

\par }{\QB that are twins of a roe,

\par }{\QB which feed among the lilies.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,

\par }{\QB I will go to the mountain of myrrh,

\par }{\QB to the hill of frankincense.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}You are all beautiful, my love.

\par }{\QB There is no spot in you.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,

\par }{\QB with me from Lebanon.

\par }{\QB Look from the top of Amana,

\par }{\QB from the top of Senir and Hermon,

\par }{\QB from the lions’ dens,

\par }{\QB from the mountains of the leopards.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{9}You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride.

\par }{\QB You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes,

\par }{\QB with one chain of your neck.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!

\par }{\QB How much better is your love than wine,

\par }{\QB the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb.

\par }{\QB Honey and milk are under your tongue.

\par }{\QB The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden;

\par }{\QB a locked up spring,

\par }{\QB a sealed fountain.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits,

\par }{\QB henna with spikenard plants,


\par }{\QB \VS{14}spikenard and saffron,

\par }{\QB calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree;

\par }{\QB myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,


\par }{\QB \VS{15}a fountain of gardens,

\par }{\QB a well of living waters,

\par }{\QB flowing streams from Lebanon.


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{16}Awake, north wind, and come, you south!

\par }{\QB Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out.

\par }{\Q Let my beloved come into his garden,

\par }{\QB and taste his precious fruits.




\par }\Chap{5}{\SP Lover

\par }{\Q \VerseOne{1}I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride.

\par }{\QB I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;

\par }{\QB I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;

\par }{\QB I have drunk my wine with my milk.

\par }{\SP Friends

\par }{\Q Eat, friends!

\par }{\QB Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{2}I was asleep, but my heart was awake.

\par }{\QB It is the voice of my beloved who knocks:

\par }{\QB “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled;

\par }{\QB for my head is filled with dew,

\par }{\QB and my hair with the dampness of the night.”


\par }{\Q \VS{3}I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on?

\par }{\QB I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening.

\par }{\QB My heart pounded for him.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}I rose up to open for my beloved.

\par }{\QB My hands dripped with myrrh,

\par }{\QB my fingers with liquid myrrh,

\par }{\QB on the handles of the lock.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}I opened to my beloved;

\par }{\QB but my beloved left, and had gone away.

\par }{\Q My heart went out when he spoke.

\par }{\QB I looked for him, but I didn’t find him.

\par }{\QB I called him, but he didn’t answer.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}The watchmen who go about the city found me.

\par }{\QB They beat me.

\par }{\QB They bruised me.

\par }{\QB The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,

\par }{\QB If you find my beloved,

\par }{\QB that you tell him that I am faint with love.


\par }{\SP Friends

\par }{\Q \VS{9}How is your beloved better than another beloved,

\par }{\QB you fairest among women?

\par }{\Q How is your beloved better than another beloved,

\par }{\Q that you do so adjure us?


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{10}My beloved is white and ruddy.

\par }{\QB The best among ten thousand.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}His head is like the purest gold.

\par }{\QB His hair is bushy, black as a raven.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks,

\par }{\QB washed with milk, mounted like jewels.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.

\par }{\QB His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl.

\par }{\QB His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.

\par }{\QB His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}His mouth is sweetness;

\par }{\QB yes, he is altogether lovely.

\par }{\Q This is my beloved, and this is my friend,

\par }{\QB daughters of Jerusalem.




\par }\Chap{6}{\SP Friends

\par }{\Q \VerseOne{1}Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women?

\par }{\QB Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{2}My beloved has gone down to his garden,

\par }{\QB to the beds of spices,

\par }{\QB to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.

\par }{\QB He browses among the lilies.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\SP Lover

\par }{\Q \VS{4}You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah,

\par }{\QB lovely as Jerusalem,

\par }{\QB awesome as an army with banners.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Turn away your eyes from me,

\par }{\QB for they have overcome me.

\par }{\Q Your hair is like a flock of goats,

\par }{\QB that lie along the side of Gilead.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Your teeth are like a flock of ewes,

\par }{\QB which have come up from the washing,

\par }{\QB of which every one has twins;

\par }{\QB not one is bereaved among them.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,

\par }{\QB and virgins without number.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}My dove, my perfect one, is unique.

\par }{\QB She is her mother’s only daughter.

\par }{\QB She is the favorite one of her who bore her.

\par }{\Q The daughters saw her, and called her blessed.

\par }{\QB The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{10}Who is she who looks out as the morning,

\par }{\QB beautiful as the moon,

\par }{\QB clear as the sun,

\par }{\QB and awesome as an army with banners?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}I went down into the nut tree grove,

\par }{\QB to see the green plants of the valley,

\par }{\QB to see whether the vine budded,

\par }{\QB and the pomegranates were in flower.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Without realizing it,

\par }{\QB my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.


\par }{\SP Friends

\par }{\Q \VS{13}Return, return, Shulammite!

\par }{\QB Return, return, that we may gaze at you.

\par }{\SP Lover

\par }{\Q Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite,

\par }{\QB as at the dance of Mahanaim?




\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter!

\par }{\QB Your rounded thighs are like jewels,

\par }{\QB the work of the hands of a skillful workman.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Your body is like a round goblet,

\par }{\QB no mixed wine is wanting.

\par }{\Q Your waist is like a heap of wheat,

\par }{\QB set about with lilies.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Your two breasts are like two fawns,

\par }{\QB that are twins of a roe.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Your neck is like an ivory tower.

\par }{\QB Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim.

\par }{\QB Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Your head on you is like Carmel.

\par }{\QB The hair of your head like purple.

\par }{\QB The king is held captive in its tresses.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}How beautiful and how pleasant you are,

\par }{\QB love, for delights!


\par }{\Q \VS{7}This, your stature, is like a palm tree,

\par }{\QB your breasts like its fruit.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree.

\par }{\QB I will take hold of its fruit.”

\par }{\Q Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,

\par }{\QB the smell of your breath like apples.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Your mouth is like the best wine,

\par }{\QB that goes down smoothly for my beloved,

\par }{\QB gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{10}I am my beloved’s.

\par }{\QB His desire is toward me.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field.

\par }{\QB Let’s lodge in the villages.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Let’s go early up to the vineyards.

\par }{\QB Let’s see whether the vine has budded,

\par }{\QB its blossom is open,

\par }{\QB and the pomegranates are in flower.

\par }{\QB There I will give you my love.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}The mandrakes produce fragrance.

\par }{\QB At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old,

\par }{\QB which I have stored up for you, my beloved.




\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Oh that you were like my brother,

\par }{\QB who nursed from the breasts of my mother!

\par }{\Q If I found you outside, I would kiss you;

\par }{\QB yes, and no one would despise me.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother,

\par }{\QB who would instruct me.

\par }{\Q I would have you drink spiced wine,

\par }{\QB of the juice of my pomegranate.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}His left hand would be under my head.

\par }{\QB His right hand would embrace me.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{4}I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,

\par }{\QB that you not stir up, nor awaken love,

\par }{\QB until it so desires.


\par }{\SP Friends

\par }{\Q \VS{5}Who is this who comes up from the wilderness,

\par }{\QB leaning on her beloved?

\par }{\BB \par }
{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q Under the apple tree I awakened you.

\par }{\QB There your mother conceived you.

\par }{\QB There she was in labor and bore you.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}Set me as a seal on your heart,

\par }{\QB as a seal on your arm;

\par }{\QB for love is strong as death.

\par }{\QB Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.\FTNT{†}{{\FR 8:6 }{\FT{Sheol is the place of the dead.
}}}

\par }{\QB Its flashes are flashes of fire,

\par }{\QB a very flame of Yah.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 8:6 }{\FT{“Yah” is a short form of “Yahweh”, which is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.}}}


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Many waters can’t quench love,

\par }{\QB neither can floods drown it.

\par }{\Q If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love,

\par }{\QB he would be utterly scorned.


\par }{\SP Brothers

\par }{\Q \VS{8}We have a little sister.

\par }{\QB She has no breasts.

\par }{\Q What shall we do for our sister

\par }{\QB in the day when she is to be spoken for?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{9}If she is a wall,

\par }{\QB we will build on her a turret of silver.

\par }{\Q If she is a door,

\par }{\QB we will enclose her with boards of cedar.


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{10}I am a wall, and my breasts like towers,

\par }{\QB then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon.

\par }{\QB He leased out the vineyard to keepers.

\par }{\QB Each was to bring a thousand shekels\FTNT{§}{{\FR 8:11 }{\FT{A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or about 22 pounds.}}} of silver for its fruit.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}My own vineyard is before me.

\par }{\QB The thousand are for you, Solomon,

\par }{\QB two hundred for those who tend its fruit.


\par }{\SP Lover

\par }{\Q \VS{13}You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance,

\par }{\QB let me hear your voice!


\par }{\SP Beloved

\par }{\Q \VS{14}Come away, my beloved!

\par }{\QB Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!


\par }