The Song of (A)Songs, which is Solomon's.

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Solomon’s Song of Songs.(A)

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She

I am very dark, but (A)lovely,
    O (B)daughters of Jerusalem,
like (C)the tents of (D)Kedar,
    like the curtains of Solomon.

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Dark am I, yet lovely,(A)
    daughters of Jerusalem,(B)
dark like the tents of Kedar,(C)
    like the tent curtains of Solomon.[a]

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  1. Song of Songs 1:5 Or Salma

Behold, it is the litter[a] of Solomon!
Around it are (A)sixty (B)mighty men,
    some of the mighty men of Israel,

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  1. Song of Solomon 3:7 That is, the couch on which servants carry a king

Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,
    escorted by sixty warriors,(A)
    the noblest of Israel,

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King Solomon made himself a carriage[a]
    from the wood of Lebanon.

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  1. Song of Solomon 3:9 Or sedan chair

King Solomon made for himself the carriage;
    he made it of wood from Lebanon.

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11 Go out, O (A)daughters of Zion,
    and look upon King Solomon,
with the crown with which his mother crowned him
    on (B)the day of his wedding,
    on the day of the gladness of his heart.

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11 come out,
    and look, you daughters of Zion.(A)
Look[a] on King Solomon wearing a crown,
    the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
    the day his heart rejoiced.(B)

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  1. Song of Songs 3:11 Or interior lovingly inlaid / by the daughters of Jerusalem. / 11 Come out, you daughters of Zion, / and look

11 Solomon had (A)a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
    he (B)let out the vineyard to (C)keepers;
    each one was to bring for its fruit (D)a thousand pieces of silver.

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11 Solomon had a vineyard(A) in Baal Hamon;
    he let out his vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for its fruit
    a thousand shekels[a](B) of silver.

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  1. Song of Songs 8:11 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms; also in verse 12

12 My vineyard, my very own, is before me;
    you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,
    and (A)the keepers of the fruit two hundred.

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12 But my own vineyard(A) is mine to give;
    the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,
    and two hundred[a] are for those who tend its fruit.

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  1. Song of Songs 8:12 That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms