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World English Bible

Song of Solomon 1 (WEBP)

[1] The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
[2] Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
[3] Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
[4] Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.
[5] I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.
[6] Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
[7] Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
[8] If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
[9] I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.
[10] Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
[11] We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver.
[12] While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
[13] My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
[14] My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.
[15] Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.
[16] Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.
[17] The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.

Song of Solomon 1:15 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Song of Solomon 1 (KJVS)

[1] The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
[2] Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: For thy love is better than wine.
[3] Because of the savour of thy good ointments Thy name is as ointment poured forth, Therefore do the virgins love thee.
[4] Draw me, we will run after thee: The king hath brought me into his chambers: We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will remember thy love more than wine: The upright love thee.
[5] I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.
[6] Look not upon me, because I am black, Because the sun hath looked upon me: My mother’s children were angry with me; They made me the keeper of the vineyards; But mine own vineyard have I not kept.
[7] Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: For why should I be as one that turneth aside By the flocks of thy companions?
[8] If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, And feed thy kids Beside the shepherds’ tents.
[9] I have compared thee, O my love, To a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
[10] Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, Thy neck with chains of gold.
[11] We will make thee borders of gold With studs of silver.
[12] While the King sitteth at his table, My spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
[13] A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
[14] My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire In the vineyards of Engedi.
[15] Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair; Thou hast doves’ eyes.
[16] Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, Yea, pleasant: Also our bed is green.
[17] The beams of our house are cedar, And our rafters of fir.

Song of Solomon 1:2 Heb. thy loves
Song of Solomon 1:4 Or, they love thee uprightly
Song of Solomon 1:7 Or, as one that is vailed
Song of Solomon 1:14 Or, Cypress
Song of Solomon 1:15 Or, my companion
Song of Solomon 1:17 Or, galleries

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Song of Solomon 1 (BYZ)

[1] Ἆισμα ᾀσμάτων, ὅ () ἐστιν () τῷ () Σαλωμων.
[2] Φιλησάτω () με () ἀπὸ () φιλημάτων () στόματος () αὐτοῦ, () ὅτι () ἀγαθοὶ () μαστοί () σου () ὑπὲρ () οἶνον, ()
[3] καὶ () ὀσμὴ () μύρων () σου () ὑπὲρ () πάντα () τὰ () ἀρώματα, () μύρον () ἐκκενωθὲν ὄνομά () σου. () Διὰ () τοῦτο () νεάνιδες ἠγάπησάν () σε, ()
[4] εἵλκυσάν () σε, () ὀπίσω () σου () εἰς () ὀσμὴν () μύρων () σου () δραμοῦμεν. () Εἰσήνεγκέν () με () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () εἰς () τὸ () ταμίειον () αὐτοῦ. () Ἀγαλλιασώμεθα () καὶ () εὐφρανθῶμεν () ἐν () σοί, () ἀγαπήσομεν () μαστούς () σου () ὑπὲρ () οἶνον· () εὐθύτης () ἠγάπησέν () σε. ()
[5] Μέλαινά () εἰμι () καὶ () καλή, θυγατέρες () Ιερουσαλημ, () ὡς () σκηνώματα () Κηδαρ, ὡς () δέρρεις Σαλωμων.
[6] Μὴ () βλέψητέ () με, () ὅτι () ἐγώ () εἰμι () μεμελανωμένη, ὅτι () παρέβλεψέν με () ὁ () ἥλιος· () υἱοὶ () μητρός () μου () ἐμαχέσαντο () ἐν () ἐμοί, () ἔθεντό () με () φυλάκισσαν ἐν () ἀμπελῶσιν· () ἀμπελῶνα () ἐμὸν () οὐκ () ἐφύλαξα. ()
[7] Ἀπάγγειλόν () μοι, () ὃν () ἠγάπησεν () ἡ () ψυχή () μου, () ποῦ () ποιμαίνεις, () ποῦ () κοιτάζεις ἐν () μεσημβρίᾳ, () μήποτε () γένωμαι () ὡς () περιβαλλομένη () ἐπ’ () ἀγέλαις () ἑταίρων () σου. ()
[8] Ἐὰν () μὴ () γνῷς () σεαυτήν, () ἡ () καλὴ ἐν () γυναιξίν, () ἔξελθε () σὺ () ἐν () πτέρναις () τῶν () ποιμνίων () καὶ () ποίμαινε () τὰς () ἐρίφους () σου () ἐπὶ () σκηνώμασιν () τῶν () ποιμένων. ()
[9] Τῇ () ἵππῳ () μου () ἐν () ἅρμασιν () Φαραω () ὡμοίωσά () σε, () ἡ () πλησίον () μου. ()
[10] Τί () ὡραιώθησαν σιαγόνες () σου () ὡς () τρυγόνες, () τράχηλός () σου () ὡς () ὁρμίσκοι;
[11] Ὁμοιώματα () χρυσίου () ποιήσομέν () σοι () μετὰ () στιγμάτων () τοῦ () ἀργυρίου. ()
[12] Ἕως () οὗ () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () ἐν () ἀνακλίσει αὐτοῦ, () νάρδος () μου () ἔδωκεν () ὀσμὴν () αὐτοῦ. ()
[13] Ἀπόδεσμος τῆς () στακτῆς ἀδελφιδός μου () ἐμοί, () ἀνὰ () μέσον () τῶν () μαστῶν () μου () αὐλισθήσεται· ()
[14] βότρυς () τῆς () κύπρου ἀδελφιδός μου () ἐμοὶ () ἐν () ἀμπελῶσιν () Εγγαδδι.
[15] Ἰδοὺ () εἶ () καλή, ἡ () πλησίον () μου, () ἰδοὺ () εἶ () καλή, ὀφθαλμοί () σου () περιστεραί. ()
[16] Ἰδοὺ () εἶ () καλός, () ὁ () ἀδελφιδός μου, () καί () γε () ὡραῖος· () πρὸς () κλίνη () ἡμῶν () σύσκιος,
[17] δοκοὶ () οἴκων () ἡμῶν () κέδροι, φατνώματα ἡμῶν () κυπάρισσοι.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.