Song of Songs 1:2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Kiss me and kiss me again, for your love is sweeter than wine.

How pleasing is your fragrance; your name is like the spreading fragrance of scented oils. No wonder all the young women love you!

Take me with you; come, let’s run! The king has brought me into his bedroom. How happy we are for you, O king. We praise your love even more than wine. How right they are to adore you.

I am dark but beautiful, O women of Jerusalem— dark as the tents of Kedar, dark as the curtains of Solomon’s tents.

Don’t stare at me because I am dark— the sun has darkened my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they forced me to care for their vineyards, so I couldn’t care for myself—my own vineyard.