1:1 Solomon’s 1 Most Excellent 2 Love Song. 3
The Beloved to Her Lover: 4
1:2 Oh, how I wish you 5 would kiss me passionately! 6
For your lovemaking 7 is more delightful 8 than wine. 9
1:3 The fragrance 10 of your colognes 11 is delightful; 12
your name 13 is like the finest 14 perfume. 15
No wonder the young women 16 adore 17 you!
1:4 Draw me 18 after you; let us hurry! 19
May the king 20 bring 21 me into his 22 bedroom chambers! 23
The Maidens 24 to the Lover:
We will 25 rejoice and delight in you; 26
we will praise 27 your love more than wine.
The Beloved to Her Lover:
How rightly 28 the young women 29 adore you!
The Beloved to the Maidens:
1:5 I am dark but lovely, O maidens 30 of Jerusalem,
dark 31 like the tents of Qedar, 32
lovely 33 like the tent curtains 34 of Salmah. 35