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title: Song of Solomon 1
slug: kjv/song-of-solomon-1
createdAt: 2024-08-18T04:09:57.242Z
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**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.