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Song of Solomon 1
The book opens mid-conversation, with a woman longing aloud for a man's kisses and his love that is "better than wine." No narrator sets the scene; voices simply trade praise, and the daughters of Jerusalem answer back. Note how the speakers shift without labels in the Hebrew, so you read by listening. Watch the woman defend her sun-darkened skin ("I am dark, but lovely"), explaining her brothers forced her to keep vineyards while her own went untended. The setting is rural and royal at once: shepherds' flocks, Pharaoh's horses, a king's table.
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The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. Beloved
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Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
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Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
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Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.
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I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.
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Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
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Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover
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If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
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I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.
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Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels. Friends
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We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver. Beloved
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While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
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My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
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My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. Lover
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Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves. Beloved
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Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant. Lover
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The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.
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CANCIÓN de canciones, la cual es de Salomón.
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¡Oh si él me besara con ósculos de su boca! porque mejores son tus amores que el vino.
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Por el olor de tus suaves ungüentos, (ungüento derramado es tu nombre,) por eso las doncellas te amaron.
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Llévame en pos de ti, correremos. Metióme el rey en sus cámaras: nos gozaremos y alegraremos en ti; acordarémonos de tus amores más que del vino: los rectos te aman.
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Morena soy, oh hijas de Jerusalem, mas codiciable; como las cabañas de Cedar, como las tiendas de Salomón.
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No miréis en que soy morena, porque el sol me miró. Los hijos de mi madre se airaron contra mí, hiciéronme guarda de viñas; y mi viña, que era mía, no guardé.
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Hazme saber, ó tú á quien ama mi alma, dónde repastas, dónde haces tener majada al medio día: porque, ¿por qué había yo de estar como vagueando tras los rebaños de tus compañeros?
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Si tú no lo sabes, oh hermosa entre las mujeres, sal, yéndote por las huellas del rebaño, y apacienta tus cabritas junto á las cabañas de los pastores.
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A yegua de los carros de Faraón te he comparado, amiga mía.
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Hermosas son tus mejillas entre los pendientes, tu cuello entre los collares.
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Zarcillos de oro te haremos, con clavos de plata.
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Mientras que el rey estaba en su reclinatorio, mi nardo dió su olor.
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Mi amado es para mí un manojito de mirra, que reposa entre mis pechos.
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Racimo de copher en las viñas de Engadi es para mí mi amado.
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He aquí que tú eres hermosa, amiga mía; he aquí que eres bella: tus ojos de paloma.
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He aquí que tú eres hermoso, amado mío, y suave: nuestro lecho también florido.
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Las vigas de nuestra casa son de cedro, y de ciprés los artesonados.
Two worlds in one voice
The chapter braids country imagery with court grandeur. She asks where her love grazes his flock at noon, then is compared to a mare among Pharaoh's chariots; he sits at a king's table while she likens him to myrrh and to henna blossoms from En Gedi.
This double register sets up the whole book, which never decides whether the man is shepherd or king, and treats the tension as part of the desire rather than a problem to solve.
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