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As fragrance, your perfumes[a] are delightful;[b]
    your name is poured out perfume;[c]
        therefore young women love you.
Draw me after you, let us run!
    May the king bring me into his chambers![d]
Let us be joyful and let us rejoice in you;
    let us extol your love more than wine.
        Rightly do they love you!

Maiden’s Self-Description

I am black but beautiful,[e] O maidens of Jerusalem,[f]
    like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 1:3 Literally “your oil lotions”
  2. Song of Solomon 1:3 Literally “good”
  3. Song of Solomon 1:3 Literally “oil lotion”
  4. Song of Solomon 1:4 Or “The king has brought me into his chambers”
  5. Song of Solomon 1:5 Or “black and beautiful”
  6. Song of Solomon 1:5 Literally “O daughters of Jerusalem”

Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;(A)
    your name(B) is like perfume poured out.
    No wonder the young women(C) love you!
Take me away with you—let us hurry!
    Let the king bring me into his chambers.(D)

Friends

We rejoice and delight(E) in you[a];
    we will praise your love(F) more than wine.

She

How right they are to adore you!

Dark am I, yet lovely,(G)
    daughters of Jerusalem,(H)
dark like the tents of Kedar,(I)
    like the tent curtains of Solomon.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 1:4 The Hebrew is masculine singular.
  2. Song of Songs 1:5 Or Salma