Song of Solomon 1Living Bible (TLB)

1 This song of songs, more wonderful than any other, was composed by King Solomon:

The Girl:^{[a] 2} “Kiss me again and again, for your love is sweeter than wine. ³ How fragrant your cologne, and how great your name! No wonder all the young girls love you! ⁴ Take me with you; come, let’s run!”

The Girl: “The king has brought me into his palace. How happy we will be! Your love is better than wine. No wonder all the young girls love you!”

The Girl: ⁵ “I am dark but beautiful, O girls of Jerusalem, tanned as the dark tents of Kedar.”

King Solomon: “But lovely as the silken tents of Solomon!”

The Girl: ⁶ “Don’t look down on me, you city girls,^[b] just because my complexion is so dark—the sun has tanned me. My brothers were angry with me and sent me out into the sun* to tend the vineyards, but see what it has done to me!”*

The Girl: ⁷ “Tell me, O one I love, where are you leading your flock today? Where will you be at noon? For I will come and join you there instead of wandering like a vagabond among the flocks of your companions.”

King Solomon: ⁸ “If you don’t know, O most beautiful woman in all the world, follow the trail of my flock to the shepherds’ tents, and there feed your sheep and their lambs. ⁹ What a lovely filly you are,^[c] my love! ¹⁰ How lovely your cheeks are, with your hair^[d] falling down upon them! How stately your neck with that long string of jewels. ¹¹ We shall make you gold earrings and silver beads.”

The Girl: ¹² “The king lies on his bed, enchanted by the fragrance of my perfume. ¹³ My beloved one is a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts.”

King Solomon: ¹⁴ “My beloved is a bouquet of flowers in the gardens of Engedi. ¹⁵ How beautiful you are, my love, how beautiful! Your eyes are soft as doves’. ¹⁶ What a lovely, pleasant thing you are, lying here upon the grass, ¹⁷ shaded by the cedar trees and firs.”