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Song of Solomon 1:3-5
English Standard Version Anglicised

3     your (A)anointing oils are fragrant;
your (B)name is oil poured out;
    therefore virgins love you.
4 (C)Draw me after you; (D)let us run.
    (E)The king has brought me into his chambers.

Others

We will (F)exult and rejoice in you;
    we will extol (G)your love more than wine;
    rightly do they love you.

She

5 I am very dark, but (H)lovely,
    O (I)daughters of Jerusalem,
like (J)the tents of (K)Kedar,
    like the curtains of Solomon.

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Song of Songs 1:3-5
New International Version

3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;(A)
    your name(B) is like perfume poured out.
    No wonder the young women(C) love you!
4 Take me away with you—let us hurry!
    Let the king bring me into his chambers.(D)

Friends

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

She

How right they are to adore you!

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

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Footnotes

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