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2024-01-16 14:23:52 UTC Now, we start Song of Songs, A.K.A. Song of Solomon.
Song of Songs 1:1-17 MSG
[1] The Song—best of all songs—Solomon’s song! [2-3] Kiss me—full on the mouth! Yes! For your love is better than wine, headier than your aromatic oils. The syllables of your name murmur like a meadow brook. No wonder everyone loves to say your name! [4] Take me away with you! Let’s run off together! An elopement with my King-Lover! We’ll celebrate, we’ll sing, we’ll make great music. Yes! For your love is better than vintage wine. Everyone loves you—of course! And why not? [5-6] I am weathered but still elegant, oh, dear sisters in Jerusalem, Weather-darkened like Kedar desert tents, time-softened like Solomon’s Temple hangings. Don’t look down on me because I’m dark, darkened by the sun’s harsh rays. My brothers ridiculed me and sent me to work in the fields. They made me care for the face of the earth, but I had no time to care for my own face. [7] Tell me where you’re working —I love you so much— Tell me where you’re tending your flocks, where you let them rest at noontime. Why should I be the one left out, outside the orbit of your tender care? [8] If you can’t find me, loveliest of all women, it’s all right. Stay with your flocks. Lead your lambs to good pasture. Stay with your shepherd neighbors. [9-11] You remind me of Pharaoh’s well-groomed and satiny mares. Pendant earrings line the elegance of your cheeks; strands of jewels illumine the curve of your throat. I’m making jewelry for you, gold and silver jewelry that will mark and accent your beauty. [12-14] When my King-Lover lay down beside me, my fragrance filled the room. His head resting between my breasts— the head of my lover was a sachet of sweet myrrh. My beloved is a bouquet of wildflowers picked just for me from the fields of En Gedi. [15] Oh, my dear friend! You’re so beautiful! And your eyes so beautiful—like doves! [16-17] And you, my dear lover—you’re so handsome! And the bed we share is like a forest glen. We enjoy a canopy of cedars enclosed by cypresses, fragrant and green.
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Song of Solomon 1:1-17 AMPC
[1] THE SONG of songs [the most excellent of them all] which is Solomon’s. [I Kings 4:32.] [2] Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! [she cries. Then, realizing that Solomon has arrived and has heard her speech, she turns to him and adds] For your love is better than wine! [3] [And she continues] The odor of your ointments is fragrant; your name is like perfume poured out. Therefore do the maidens love you. [4] Draw me! We will run after you! The king brings me into his apartments! We will be glad and rejoice in you! We will recall [when we were favored with] your love, more fragrant than wine. The upright [are not offended at your choice, but sincerely] love you. [5] I am so black; but [you are] lovely and pleasant [the ladies assured her]. O you daughters of Jerusalem, [I am as dark] as the tents of [the Bedouin tribe] Kedar, like the [beautiful] curtains of Solomon! [6] [Please] do not look at me, [she said, for] I am swarthy. [I have worked out] in the sun and it has left its mark upon me. My stepbrothers were angry with me, and they made me keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard [my complexion] I have not kept. [7] [Addressing her shepherd, she said] Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon. For why should I [as I think of you] be as a veiled one straying beside the flocks of your companions? [Ps. 23:1, 2.] [8] If you do not know [where your lover is], O you fairest among women, run along, follow the tracks of the flock, and [amuse yourself by] pasturing your kids beside the shepherds’ tents. [9] O my love [he said as he saw her], you remind me of my [favorite] mare in the chariot spans of Pharaoh. [10] Your cheeks are comely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels. [11] We will make for you chains and ornaments of gold, studded with silver. [12] While the king sits at his table [she said], my spikenard [my absent lover] sends forth [his] fragrance [over me]. [13] My beloved [shepherd] is to me like a [scent] bag of myrrh that lies in my bosom. [14] My beloved [shepherd] is to me a cluster of henna flowers in the vineyards of En-gedi [famed for its fragrant shrubs]. [15] Behold, you are beautiful, my love! Behold, you are beautiful! You have doves’ eyes. [16] [She cried] Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved [shepherd], yes, delightful! Our arbor and couch are green and leafy. [17] The beams of our house are cedars, and our rafters and panels are cypresses or pines.
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