The Message

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            <div class="label">1</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Song&#8212;best of all songs&#8212;Solomon&#8217;s song!</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Woman</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2 v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.2+SNG.1.3"><span class="label">2-3</span><span class="content">Kiss me&#8212;full on the mouth!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2 v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.2+SNG.1.3"><span class="content">Yes! For your love is better than wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2 v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.2+SNG.1.3"><span class="content">headier than your aromatic oils.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2 v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.2+SNG.1.3"><span class="content">The syllables of your name murmur like a meadow brook.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2 v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.2+SNG.1.3"><span class="content">No wonder everyone loves to say your name!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2 v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.2+SNG.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Take me away with you! Let&#8217;s run off together!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">An elopement with my King-Lover!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">We&#8217;ll celebrate, we&#8217;ll sing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">we&#8217;ll make great music.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">Yes! For your love is better than vintage wine.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">Everyone loves you&#8212;of course! And why not?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5 v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.5+SNG.1.6"><span class="label">5-6</span><span class="content">I am weathered but still elegant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5 v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.5+SNG.1.6"><span class="content">oh, dear sisters in Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5 v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.5+SNG.1.6"><span class="content">Weather-darkened like Kedar desert tents,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5 v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.5+SNG.1.6"><span class="content">time-softened like Solomon&#8217;s Temple hangings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5 v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.5+SNG.1.6"><span class="content">Don&#8217;t look down on me because I&#8217;m dark,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5 v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.5+SNG.1.6"><span class="content">darkened by the sun&#8217;s harsh rays.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5 v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.5+SNG.1.6"><span class="content">My brothers ridiculed me and sent me to work in the fields.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5 v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.5+SNG.1.6"><span class="content">They made me care for the face of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5 v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.5+SNG.1.6"><span class="content">but I had no time to care for my own face.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5 v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.5+SNG.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Tell me where you&#8217;re working</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">&#8212;I love you so much&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">Tell me where you&#8217;re tending your flocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">where you let them rest at noontime.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">Why should I be the one left out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">outside the orbit of your tender care?</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Man</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If you can&#8217;t find me, loveliest of all women,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">it&#8217;s all right. Stay with your flocks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">Lead your lambs to good pasture.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">Stay with your shepherd neighbors.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9 v10 v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.9+SNG.1.10+SNG.1.11"><span class="label">9-11</span><span class="content">You remind me of Pharaoh&#8217;s</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.9+SNG.1.10+SNG.1.11"><span class="content">well-groomed and satiny mares.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.9+SNG.1.10+SNG.1.11"><span class="content">Pendant earrings line the elegance of your cheeks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.9+SNG.1.10+SNG.1.11"><span class="content">strands of jewels illumine the curve of your throat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.9+SNG.1.10+SNG.1.11"><span class="content">I&#8217;m making jewelry for you, gold and silver jewelry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.9+SNG.1.10+SNG.1.11"><span class="content">that will mark and accent your beauty.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Woman</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9 v10 v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.9+SNG.1.10+SNG.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12 v13 v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.12+SNG.1.13+SNG.1.14"><span class="label">12-14</span><span class="content">When my King-Lover lay down beside me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12 v13 v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.12+SNG.1.13+SNG.1.14"><span class="content">my fragrance filled the room.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12 v13 v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.12+SNG.1.13+SNG.1.14"><span class="content">His head resting between my breasts&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12 v13 v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.12+SNG.1.13+SNG.1.14"><span class="content">the head of my lover was a sachet of sweet myrrh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12 v13 v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.12+SNG.1.13+SNG.1.14"><span class="content">My beloved is a bouquet of wildflowers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12 v13 v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.12+SNG.1.13+SNG.1.14"><span class="content">picked just for me from the fields of En Gedi.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Man</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12 v13 v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.12+SNG.1.13+SNG.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Oh, my dear friend! You&#8217;re so beautiful!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">And your eyes so beautiful&#8212;like doves!</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Woman</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16 v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.16+SNG.1.17"><span class="label">16-17</span><span class="content">And you, my dear lover&#8212;you&#8217;re so handsome!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16 v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.16+SNG.1.17"><span class="content">And the bed we share is like a forest glen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16 v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.16+SNG.1.17"><span class="content">We enjoy a canopy of cedars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16 v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.16+SNG.1.17"><span class="content">enclosed by cypresses, fragrant and green.</span></span></div>
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The Song—best of all songs—Solomon’s song!

Kiss me—full on the mouth!
Yes! For your love is better than wine,
headier than your aromatic oils.
The syllables of your name murmur like a meadow brook.
No wonder everyone loves to say your name!

Take me away with you! Let’s run off together!
An elopement with my King-Lover!
We’ll celebrate, we’ll sing,
we’ll make great music.
Yes! For your love is better than vintage wine.
Everyone loves you—of course! And why not?

I am weathered but still elegant,
oh, dear sisters in Jerusalem,
Weather-darkened like Kedar desert tents,
time-softened like Solomon’s Temple hangings.
Don’t look down on me because I’m dark,
darkened by the sun’s harsh rays.
My brothers ridiculed me and sent me to work in the fields.
They made me care for the face of the earth,
but I had no time to care for my own face.

Tell me where you’re working
—I love you so much—
Tell me where you’re tending your flocks,
where you let them rest at noontime.
Why should I be the one left out,
outside the orbit of your tender care?

If you can’t find me, loveliest of all women,
it’s all right. Stay with your flocks.
Lead your lambs to good pasture.
Stay with your shepherd neighbors.

You remind me of Pharaoh’s
well-groomed and satiny mares.
Pendant earrings line the elegance of your cheeks;
strands of jewels illumine the curve of your throat.
I’m making jewelry for you, gold and silver jewelry
that will mark and accent your beauty.

When my King-Lover lay down beside me,
my fragrance filled the room.
His head resting between my breasts—
the head of my lover was a sachet of sweet myrrh.
My beloved is a bouquet of wildflowers
picked just for me from the fields of En Gedi.

Oh, my dear friend! You’re so beautiful!
And your eyes so beautiful—like doves!

And you, my dear lover—you’re so handsome!
And the bed we share is like a forest glen.
We enjoy a canopy of cedars
enclosed by cypresses, fragrant and green.

Luister na Song of Songs 1