Song of Songs The Song of Songs,* which is for* Solomon.

LEB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ The Song of Songs,* which is for* Solomon. ² _⌊May* you kiss me_⌋* _⌊passionately with your lips_⌋,* for your love is better than wine.* ³ As fragrance, _⌊your perfumes_⌋* are _⌊delightful_⌋;* your name is poured out _⌊perfume_⌋;* therefore young women love you. ⁴ Draw me after you, let us run! May the king bring me into his chambers!* Let us be joyful and let us rejoice in you; let us extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you! ⁵ I am black but beautiful,* _⌊O maidens of Jerusalem_⌋,* like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. ⁶ Do not gaze at me because I am black, * because the sun has stared at me. The sons of my mother were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own "vineyard"* I did not keep. ⁷ Tell me, you whom my _⌊heart_⌋* loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do your sheep lie down at the noon? _⌊For why should I be like_⌋* one who is veiled* beside the flocks of your companions? ⁸ If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow _⌊the tracks_⌋* of the flock, and pasture your little lambs* beside the tents of the shepherds. ⁹ To a mare* among the chariots* of Pharaoh, I compare you, my beloved. ¹⁰ Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels. ¹¹ We will make ornaments of gold for you with studs* of silver. ¹² While the king was on his couch, my nard gave its fragrance. ¹³ My beloved is to me _⌊a pouch_⌋* of myrrh, he spends the night* between my breasts. ¹⁴ My beloved is to me a cluster of blossoms of henna in the vineyards of En Gedi. ¹⁵ Look! You are beautiful, my beloved. Look! You are beautiful; your eyes are doves. ¹⁶ Look! You are beautiful, my beloved, truly pleasant. Truly our couch is _⌊verdant_⌋;* ¹⁷ the beams of our house are cedar; our rafter is cypress.