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You have put perfume on your body.
    It has a lovely smell.
The sound of your name causes pleasure everywhere,
    like sweet perfume.
All the young women love you!
Take me away with you. Come quickly.
    I want the king to take me into his rooms.[a]

The woman's friends:[b]

We are very happy!
    You make us happy.
We praise your love,
    because it is better than wine.

The young woman:

I agree! The young women are right to praise you like that.

Young women of Jerusalem, my skin is dark but I am beautiful.[c]
    My skin is dark, like the tents of Kedar.
    It is beautiful, like the curtains of King Solomon's tent.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:4 The man may be a king. Or, for the woman, he may be like a king, because she gives him honour.
  2. 1:4 The woman is with some friends. The women friends are speaking about the man, not about the woman.
  3. 1:5 The writer calls her friends the ‘Daughters of Jerusalem’. Jerusalem was the capital city where Solomon was king.