New American Standard Bible 1995

Song of Songs 1:4-7

4Draw me after you and let us run together! The 1king has brought me into his chambers.” “2We will rejoice in you and be glad; We will 3extol your 4love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.”

5“5I am black but 6lovely, O 7daughters of Jerusalem, Like the 8tents of 9Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon.6Do not stare at me because I am 10swarthy, For the sun has burned me. My 11mother’s sons were angry with me; They made me 12caretaker of the vineyards, But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.7Tell me, O you 13whom my soul loves, Where do you 14pasture your flock, Where do you make it 15lie down at noon? For why should I be like one who 16veils herself Beside the flocks of your 17companions?”

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Notes

1. Song of Songs 1:4 Ps 45:14, 15 ↩
2. Song of Songs 1:4 CHORUS ↩
3. Song of Songs 1:4 Lit mention with praise ↩
4. Song of Songs 1:4 Song 1:4; 4:10 ↩
5. Song of Songs 1:5 BRIDE ↩
6. Song of Songs 1:5 Song 2:14; 4:3; 6:4 ↩
7. Song of Songs 1:5 Song 2:7; 3:5, 10; 5:8, 16; 8:4 ↩
8. Song of Songs 1:5 Ps 120:5 ↩
9. Song of Songs 1:5 Is 60:7 ↩
10. Song of Songs 1:6 Or black ↩
11. Song of Songs 1:6 Ps 69:8 ↩
12. Song of Songs 1:6 Song 8:11 ↩
13. Song of Songs 1:7 Song 3:1-4 ↩
14. Song of Songs 1:7 Song 2:16; 6:3 ↩
15. Song of Songs 1:7 Is 13:20; Jer 33:12 ↩
16. Song of Songs 1:7 Some versions read wanders ↩
17. Song of Songs 1:7 Song 8:13 ↩

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