Song of Solomon 1
1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
song [the] song which to/for Solomon
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
to kiss me from kiss lip his for pleasant beloved: love your from wine
3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love 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’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.
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, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.
black I and lovely daughter Jerusalem like/as tent Kedar like/as curtain Solomon
6 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.
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, 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?
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 don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
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 have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.
to/for mare my in/on/with chariot Pharaoh to resemble you darling my
10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, 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 earrings of gold, with studs of silver.
plait gold to make to/for you with bead [the] silver: money
12 While the king sat 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, that lies 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 from the vineyards of En Gedi.
cluster [the] henna beloved my to/for me in/on/with vineyard Engedi Engedi
15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.
look! you beautiful darling my look! you beautiful eye your dove
16 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.
look! you beautiful beloved my also pleasant also bed our luxuriant
17 The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.
beam house: home our cedar (rafter our *Q(K)*) cypress
