Oh how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine. 1:3 The fragrance of your colognes is delightful;your name is like the finest perfume.0 No wonder the young women adore you!
Draw me after you; let us hurry! May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers!
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We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. The Beloved to Her Lover: How rightly the young women adore you.
Song of songs by Solomon 1.5
I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah
1:6 Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!
1:7 Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions!
1.9 O my beloved, you are like a mare among Pharaoh’s stallions!
1:10 Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels. 1:11 We will make for you gold ornaments studded with silver.
1:12 While the king was at his banqueting table my nard gave forth its fragrance. 1:13 My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrh spending the night between my breasts. 1:14 My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-Gedi
1:15 Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved!
Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!
The Beloved to Her Lover: 1:16 Oh, how handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how delightful0 you are!
The lush foliage is our canopied bed; 1:17 the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.
:1 I am a meadow flower from Sharon, a lily from the valleys.
: Like a lily among the thorns, so is my darling among the maidens.
:3 Like an apple tree0 among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men.
I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
2.4 He brought me into the banquet hall, and he looked at me lovingly.
2:5 Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
2:6 His left hand caresses my head, and his right hand stimulates me.
2:7 I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and by the young does of the open fields: