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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The song of songs, which </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> Solomon's.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="content">For thy love </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> better than wine.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Because of the savour of thy good ointments</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="content">Thy name </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is as</span></span><span class="content"> ointment poured forth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="content">Therefore do the virgins love thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="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">Draw me, we will run after thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">The king hath brought me into his chambers:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">We will be glad and rejoice in thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">We will remember thy love more than wine:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">The upright love thee.</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" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> black, but comely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">O ye daughters of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">As the tents of Kedar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">As the curtains of Solomon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Look not upon me, because I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> black,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">Because the sun hath looked upon me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">My mother's children were angry with me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">They made me the keeper of the vineyards;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> mine own vineyard have I not kept.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="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, O thou whom my soul loveth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">Where thou feedest, where thou makest </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy flock</span></span><span class="content"> to rest at noon:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">For why should I be as one that turneth aside</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">By the flocks of thy companions?</span></span></div><div class="b"></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 thou know not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">O thou fairest among women,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">And feed thy kids</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">Beside the shepherds' tents.</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" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I have compared thee, O my love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="content">To a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Thy cheeks are comely with rows </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of jewels</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="content">Thy neck with chains </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of gold</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">We will make thee borders of gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="content">With studs of silver.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">While the King </span><span class="add"><span class="content">sitteth</span></span><span class="content"> at his table,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="content">My spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A bundle of myrrh </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my wellbeloved unto me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="content">He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My beloved </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> unto me </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> a cluster of camphire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.14"><span class="content">In the vineyards of Engedi.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="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">Behold, thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> fair, my love;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">Behold, thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> fair;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">Thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">hast</span></span><span class="content"> doves' eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Behold, thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> fair, my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">Yea, pleasant:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">Also our bed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> green.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The beams of our house </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> cedar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> our rafters of fir.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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The song of songs, which is Solomon's.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:
For thy love is better than wine.
Because of the savour of thy good ointments
Thy name is as ointment poured forth,
Therefore do the virgins love thee.
Draw me, we will run after thee:
The king hath brought me into his chambers:
We will be glad and rejoice in thee,
We will remember thy love more than wine:
The upright love thee.

I am black, but comely,
O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
As the tents of Kedar,
As the curtains of Solomon.
Look not upon me, because I am black,
Because the sun hath looked upon me:
My mother's children were angry with me;
They made me the keeper of the vineyards;
But mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth,
Where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon:
For why should I be as one that turneth aside
By the flocks of thy companions?

If thou know not,
O thou fairest among women,
Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock,
And feed thy kids
Beside the shepherds' tents.

I have compared thee, O my love,
To a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels,
Thy neck with chains of gold.
We will make thee borders of gold
With studs of silver.

While the King sitteth at his table,
My spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me;
He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire
In the vineyards of Engedi.

Behold, thou art fair, my love;
Behold, thou art fair;
Thou hast doves' eyes.
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved,
Yea, pleasant:
Also our bed is green.
The beams of our house are cedar,
And our rafters of fir.

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