Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;
    your name is like perfume poured out.
    No wonder the young women love you!
Take me away with you – let us hurry!
    Let the king bring me into his chambers.

Friends

We rejoice and delight in you;[a]
    we will praise your love more than wine.

She

How right they are to adore you!

Dark am I, yet lovely,
    daughters of Jerusalem,
dark like the tents of Kedar,
    like the tent curtains of Solomon.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 1:4 The Hebrew is masculine singular.
  2. Song of Solomon 1:5 Or Salma