2O that you would kiss me with the kisses of your mouth!
For your love is better than wine,
3your anointing oils are fragrant,
your name is oil poured out;
therefore the maidens love you.
4Draw me after you, let us make haste.
The king has brought me into his chambers.
We will exult and rejoice in you;
we will extol your love more than wine;
rightly do they love you.
5I am very dark, but comely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
like the tents of Kedar,
like the curtains of Solomon.
6Do not gaze at me because I am swarthy,
because the sun has scorched me.
My mother's sons were angry with me,
they made me keeper of the vineyards;
but, my own vineyard I have not kept!
7Tell me, you whom my soul loves,
where you pasture your flock,
where you make it lie down at noon;
for why should I be like one who wanders
beside the flocks of your companions?
He. Sg.1.8-11
8If you do not know, O fairest among women,
follow in the tracks of the flock,
and pasture your kids beside the shepherds' tents.
9I compare you, my love, to a mare of Pharaoh's chariots.
10Your cheeks are comely with ornaments,
your neck with strings of jewels.
11We will make you ornaments of gold,
studded with silver.
She. Sg.1.12-14
12While the king was on his couch,
my nard gave forth its fragrance.
13My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh,
that lies between my breasts.
14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi.
He. Sg.1.15
15Behold, you are beautiful, my love;
behold, you are beautiful;
your eyes are doves.
She. Sg.1.16-2.1
16Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely.
Our couch is green;
17the beams of our house are cedar,
our rafters are pine.