< Song of Solomon 1 >
1 This is Solomon’s Song of Songs.
song [the] song which to/for Solomon
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.
to kiss me from kiss lip his for pleasant beloved: love your from wine
3 The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.
to/for aroma oil your pleasant oil to empty name your upon so maiden to love: lover you
4 Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.
to draw me after you to run: run to come (in): bring me [the] king chamber his to rejoice and to rejoice in/on/with you to remember beloved: love your from wine uprightness to love: lover you
5 I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
black I and lovely daughter Jerusalem like/as tent Kedar like/as curtain Solomon
6 Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.
not to see: see me which/that I blackish which/that to see me [the] sun son: child mother my to be incensed in/on/with me to set: make me to keep [obj] [the] vineyard vineyard my which/that to/for me not to keep
7 Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
to tell [emph?] to/for me which/that to love: lover soul my how? to pasture how? to stretch in/on/with midday which/that to/for what? to be like/as to enwrap upon flock companion your
8 If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
if not to know to/for you [the] beautiful in/on/with woman to come out: come to/for you in/on/with heel [the] flock and to pasture [obj] kid your upon tabernacle [the] to pasture
9 I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
to/for mare my in/on/with chariot Pharaoh to resemble you darling my
10 Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
be lovely jaw your in/on/with plait neck your in/on/with string
11 We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with beads of silver.
plait gold to make to/for you with bead [the] silver: money
12 While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
till which/that [the] king in/on/with surrounds his nard my to give: give aroma his
13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
bundle [the] myrrh beloved my to/for me between breast my to lodge
14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.
cluster [the] henna beloved my to/for me in/on/with vineyard Engedi Engedi
15 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.
look! you beautiful darling my look! you beautiful eye your dove
16 How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
look! you beautiful beloved my also pleasant also bed our luxuriant
17 The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
beam house: home our cedar (rafter our *Q(K)*) cypress