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Song of Solomon Chapter 1
Song of Songs 1:1 (NIV)
1 Solomon’s Song of Songs.
Song of Songs 1:2 (NASB)
2 “May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.
Song of Songs 1:3 (CJB)
3 Your anointing oils have a wonderful fragrance; your name is like anointing oil poured out. This is why young women love you
Song of Songs 1:4 (NASB)
4 “Draw me after you and let us run together! The king has brought me into his chambers.” “We will rejoice in you and be glad; We will extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.”
Song of Songs 1:5 (NIV)
5 Dark am I, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon.
Song of Songs 1:6 (NIV)
6 Do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My mother’s sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I have neglected.
Song of Songs 1:7 (NIV)
7 Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?
Song of Songs 1:8 (AMP)
8 If you do not know [where your lover is], O you fairest among women, run along, follow the tracks of the flock, and [amuse yourself by] pasturing your kids beside the shepherds’ tents.
Song of Songs 1:9 (NASB)
9 “To me, my darling, you are like My mare among the chariots of Pharaoh.
Song of Songs 1:10 (NASB)
10 “Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, Your neck with strings of beads.”
Song of Songs 1:11 (NASB)
11 “We will make for you ornaments of gold With beads of silver.”
Song of Songs 1:12 (NIV)
12 While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
Song of Songs 1:13 (AMP)
13 My beloved [shepherd] is to me like a [scent] bag of myrrh that lies in my bosom.
Song of Songs 1:14 (NIV)
14 My lover is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.
Song of Songs 1:15 (NIV)
15 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves.
Song of Songs 1:16 (CJB)
16 — Look at you! So handsome, so pleasing, my darling! Our bed is the greenery;
Song of Songs 1:17 (NIV)
17 The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are firs.
Song of Solomon Chapter 2
Song of Songs 2:1 (AMP)
1 She said I am only a little rose or autumn crocus of the plain of Sharon, or a [humble] lily of the valleys [that grows in deep and difficult places].
Song of Songs 2:2 (NIV)
2 Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the maidens.
Song of Songs 2:3 (NIV)
3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my lover among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
Song of Songs 2:4 (NASB)
4 “He has brought me to his banquet hall, And his banner over me is love.
Song of Songs 2:5 (NIV)
5 Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
Song of Songs 2:6 (NIV)
6 His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
Song of Songs 2:7 (NIV)
7 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
Song of Songs 2:8 (NIV)
8 Listen! My lover! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
Song of Songs 2:9 (NIV)
9 My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
Song of Songs 2:10 (NIV)
10 My lover spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.
Song of Songs 2:11 (NIV)
11 See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
Song of Songs 2:12 (NIV)
12 Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
Song of Songs 2:13 (NIV)
13 The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”
Song of Songs 2:14 (NIV)
14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
Song of Songs 2:15 (NIV)
15 Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.
Song of Songs 2:16 (NASB)
16 “My beloved is mine, and I am his; He pastures his flock among the lilies.
Song of Songs 2:17 (NIV)
17 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.
Song of Solomon Chapter 3
Song of Songs 3:1 (NIV)
1 All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him.
Song of Songs 3:2 (NIV)
2 I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him.
Song of Songs 3:3 (NIV)
3 The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”
Song of Songs 3:4 (NIV)
4 Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.
Song of Songs 3:5 (NIV)
5 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
Song of Songs 3:6 (NIV)
6 Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant?
Song of Songs 3:7 (NIV)
7 Look! It is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty warriors, the noblest of Israel,
Song of Songs 3:8 (NIV)
8 all of them wearing the sword, all experienced in battle, each with his sword at his side, prepared for the terrors of the night.
Song of Songs 3:9 (NIV)
9 King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of wood from Lebanon.
Song of Songs 3:10 (NIV)
10 Its posts he made of silver, its base of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple, its interior lovingly inlaid by the daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Songs 3:11 (NIV)
11 Come out, you daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.
Song of Solomon Chapter 4
Song of Songs 4:1 (NIV)
1 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead.
Song of Songs 4:2 (NIV)
2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone.
Song of Songs 4:3 (NIV)
3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.
Song of Songs 4:4 (NIV)
4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built with elegance; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
Song of Songs 4:5 (NIV)
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.
Song of Songs 4:6 (NIV)
6 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.
Song of Songs 4:7 (NASB)
7 “You are altogether beautiful, my darling, And there is no blemish in you.
Song of Songs 4:8 (NIV)
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions’ dens and the mountain haunts of the leopards.
Song of Songs 4:9 (NIV)
9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
Song of Songs 4:10 (NIV)
10 How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice!
Song of Songs 4:11 (NIV)
11 Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride; milk and honey are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like that of Lebanon.
Song of Songs 4:12 (NIV)
12 You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.
Song of Songs 4:13 (NIV)
13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard,
Song of Songs 4:14 (NIV)
14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.
Song of Songs 4:15 (NIV)
15 You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.
Song of Songs 4:16 (NIV)
16 Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread abroad. Let my lover come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.
Song of Solomon Chapter 5
Song of Songs 5:1 (NIV)
1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Friends Eat, O friends, and drink; drink your fill, O lovers.
Song of Songs 5:2 (NIV)
2 I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My lover is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Song of Songs 5:3 (NIV)
3 I have taken off my robe– must I put it on again? I have washed my feet– must I soil them again?
Song of Songs 5:4 (NIV)
4 My lover thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him.
Song of Songs 5:5 (NIV)
5 I arose to open for my lover, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
Song of Songs 5:6 (NIV)
6 I opened for my lover, but my lover had left; he was gone. My heart sank at his departure. I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer.
Song of Songs 5:7 (NIV)
7 The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls!
Song of Songs 5:8 (NIV)
8 O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you– if you find my lover, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.
Song of Songs 5:9 (NIV)
9 How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you charge us so?
Song of Songs 5:10 (NIV)
10 My lover is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
Song of Songs 5:11 (NIV)
11 His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
Song of Songs 5:12 (NIV)
12 His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.
Song of Songs 5:13 (NIV)
13 His cheeks are like beds of spice yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh.
Song of Songs 5:14 (NIV)
14 His arms are rods of gold set with chrysolite. His body is like polished ivory decorated with sapphires.
Song of Songs 5:15 (NIV)
15 His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.
Song of Songs 5:16 (NIV)
16 His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my lover, this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Solomon Chapter 6
Song of Songs 6:1 (NASB)
1 “Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, That we may seek him with you?”
Song of Songs 6:2 (NASB)
2 “My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of balsam, To pasture his flock in the gardens And gather lilies.
Song of Songs 6:3 (NASB)
3 “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine, He who pastures his flock among the lilies.”
Song of Songs 6:4 (NASB)
4 “You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, As lovely as Jerusalem, As awesome as an army with banners.
Song of Songs 6:5 (CJB)-M
5 Turn your eyes away from me, because they overwhelm me! Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Gilead.
Song of Songs 6:6 (NIV)
6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. Each has its twin, not one of them is alone.
Song of Songs 6:7 (NIV)
7 Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.
Song of Songs 6:8 (NASB)
8 “There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, And maidens without number;
Song of Songs 6:9 (NIV)
9 but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her.
Song of Songs 6:10 (NIV)
10 Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?
Song of Songs 6:11 (NIV)
11 I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom.
Song of Songs 6:12 (AMP)
12 Before I was aware [of what was happening], my desire [to roam about] had brought me into the area of the princes of my people [the king’s retinue].
Song of Songs 6:13 (AMP)
13 [I began to flee, but they called to me] Return, return, O Shulammite; return, return, that we may look upon you! [I replied] What is there for you to see in the [poor little] Shulammite? [And they answered] As upon a dance before two armies or a dance of Mahanaim.
Song of Solomon Chapter 7
Song of Songs 7:1 (NIV)
1 How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince’s daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of a craftsman’s hands.
Song of Songs 7:2 (NIV)
2 Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies.
Song of Songs 7:3 (NIV)
3 Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
Song of Songs 7:4 (AMP)
4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory, your eyes like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
Song of Songs 7:5 (NASB)
5 “Your head crowns you like Carmel, And the flowing locks of your head are like purple threads; The king is captivated by your tresses.
Song of Songs 7:6 (NASB)
6 “How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your charms!
Song of Songs 7:7 (NIV)
7 Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit.
Song of Songs 7:8 (NIV)
8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like the clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
Song of Songs 7:9 (NIV)
9 and your mouth like the best wine. May the wine go straight to my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth.
Song of Songs 7:10 (NIV)
10 I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me.
Song of Songs 7:11 (NIV)
11 Come, my lover, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages.
Song of Songs 7:12 (NIV)
12 Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom– there I will give you my love.
Song of Songs 7:13 (NKJV)
13 The mandrakes give off a fragrance, And at our gates are pleasant fruits, All manner, new and old, Which I have laid up for you, my beloved.
Song of Solomon Chapter 8
Song of Songs 8:1 (NIV)
1 If only you were to me like a brother, who was nursed at my mother’s breasts! Then, if I found you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
Song of Songs 8:2 (NIV)
2 I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house– she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
Song of Songs 8:3 (NIV)
3 His left arm is under my head and his right arm embraces me.
Song of Songs 8:4 (NIV)
4 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
Song of Songs 8:5 (NASB)
5 “Who is this coming up from the wilderness Leaning on her beloved?” “Beneath the apple tree I awakened you; There your mother was in labor with you, There she was in labor and gave you birth.
Song of Songs 8:6 (NIV)
6 Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
Song of Songs 8:7 (NASB)
7 “Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it; If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, It would be utterly despised.”
Song of Songs 8:8 (CJB)
8 We have a little sister; her breasts are still unformed. What are we to do with our sister when she is asked for in marriage?
Song of Songs 8:9 (CJB)
9 If she is a wall, we will build on her a palace of silver; and if she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
Song of Songs 8:10 (CJB)
10 I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; so in his view I am like one who brings peace.
Song of Songs 8:11 (NASB)
11 “Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He entrusted the vineyard to caretakers. Each one was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
Song of Songs 8:12 (NIV)
12 But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
Song of Songs 8:13 (NIV)
13 You who dwell in the gardens with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!
Song of Songs 8:14 (NIV)
14 Come away, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.