New American Standard Bible 1995

Song of Songs 1:2-7

2“1May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your 2love is better than wine.3Your 3oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your 4name is like 5purified oil; Therefore the 6 7maidens love you.4Draw me after you and let us run together! The 8king has brought me into his chambers.” “9We will rejoice in you and be glad; We will 10extol your 11love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.”

5“12I am black but 13lovely, O 14daughters of Jerusalem, Like the 15tents of 16Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon.6Do not stare at me because I am 17swarthy, For the sun has burned me. My 18mother’s sons were angry with me; They made me 19caretaker of the vineyards, But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.7Tell me, O you 20whom my soul loves, Where do you 21pasture your flock, Where do you make it 22lie down at noon? For why should I be like one who 23veils herself Beside the flocks of your 24companions?”

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Notes

1. Song of Songs 1:2 BRIDE ↩
2. Song of Songs 1:2 Song 1:4; 4:10 ↩
3. Song of Songs 1:3 Song 4:10; John 12:3 ↩
4. Song of Songs 1:3 Eccl 7:1 ↩
5. Song of Songs 1:3 Lit oil which is emptied (from one vessel to another) ↩
6. Song of Songs 1:3 Or virgins ↩
7. Song of Songs 1:3 Ps 45:14 ↩
8. Song of Songs 1:4 Ps 45:14, 15 ↩
9. Song of Songs 1:4 CHORUS ↩
10. Song of Songs 1:4 Lit mention with praise ↩
11. Song of Songs 1:4 Song 1:4; 4:10 ↩
12. Song of Songs 1:5 BRIDE ↩
13. Song of Songs 1:5 Song 2:14; 4:3; 6:4 ↩
14. Song of Songs 1:5 Song 2:7; 3:5, 10; 5:8, 16; 8:4 ↩
15. Song of Songs 1:5 Ps 120:5 ↩
16. Song of Songs 1:5 Is 60:7 ↩
17. Song of Songs 1:6 Or black ↩
18. Song of Songs 1:6 Ps 69:8 ↩
19. Song of Songs 1:6 Song 8:11 ↩
20. Song of Songs 1:7 Song 3:1-4 ↩
21. Song of Songs 1:7 Song 2:16; 6:3 ↩
22. Song of Songs 1:7 Is 13:20; Jer 33:12 ↩
23. Song of Songs 1:7 Some versions read wanders ↩
24. Song of Songs 1:7 Song 8:13 ↩

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