en_wbms - Sos 1 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Here beginneth the Song of Songs [1].

² Kiss he me with the kiss of his mouth. For thy loves be better than wine[2],

³ and give odour with best oint-ments. Thy name is like oil shed [or poured] out; therefore [the] young damsels loved thee.

⁴ Draw thou me after thee; we shall run. The king led me into his cellars; we mindful of thy loves above wine, shall make full out joy, and we shall be glad in thee; rightful men love thee.

⁵ Ye daughters of Jerusalem, I am black, but fair, as the tabernacles of Kedar, as the skins of Solomon.

⁶ Do not ye behold me, that I am black, for the sun hath discoloured me; the sons of my mother fought against me, they set me a keeper in vineries; I kept not my vinery.

⁷ Thou spouse, whom my soul loveth, show to me, where thou pasturest, where thou restest in mid-day; lest I begin to wander, after the flocks of thy fellows.

⁸ A! thou fairest among women, if thou knowest not thyself, go thou out, and go forth after the steps of thy flocks; and feed thy kids, beside the tabernacles of shepherds.

⁹ My love, I likened thee to mine host of knights in the chariots of Pharaoh.

¹⁰ Thy cheeks be fair, as of a turtle; thy neck is as brooches.

¹¹ We shall make to thee golden ornaments, parted and made diverse with silver.

¹² When the king was in his resting place, my nard gave his odour.

¹³ My darling is a bundle of myrrh to me; he shall dwell betwixt my teats.

¹⁴ My darling is to me a cluster of cypress trees, among the vineries of Engedi.

¹⁵ Lo! my love, thou art fair; lo! thou art fair, thine eyes be the eyes of culvers.

¹⁶ Lo! my darling, thou art fair and shapely; our bed is fair as flowers.

¹⁷ The beams of our houses be of cedar; our couplings be of cypress.