Dual Panel1Solomon’s <08010> Most Excellent Love Song <07892> <07892>.
2The Beloved to Her Lover: Oh, how I wish you would kiss <05401> me passionately! For <03588> your lovemaking <01730> is more delightful <02896> than wine <03196>.
3The fragrance <07381> of your colognes <08081> is delightful <02896>; your name <08034> is like the finest perfume <08081>. No wonder <03651> the young women <05959> adore <0157> you!
4Draw <04900> me after <0310> you; let us hurry <07323>! May the king <04428> bring <0935> me into his bedroom chambers <02315>! The Maidens to the Lover: We will rejoice <01523> and delight <08055> in you; we will praise <02142> your love <0157> more than wine <03196>. The Beloved <01730> to Her Lover: How rightly <04339> the young women adore you!
5The Beloved to the Maidens: I <0589> am dark <07838> but lovely <05000>, O maidens <01323> of Jerusalem <03389>, dark like the tents <0168> of Qedar <06938>, lovely like the tent curtains <03407> of Salmah <08010>.
6Do not <0408> stare <07200> at me because I <0589> am dark <07840>, for the sun <08121> has burned <07805> my skin. My brothers <0517> <01121> were angry <02787> with me; they made <07760> me the keeper <05201> of the vineyards <03754>. Alas, my own vineyard <03754> I could not <03808> keep <05201>!
7The Beloved to Her Lover: Tell <05046> me, O you whom my heart <05315> loves <0157>, where <0349> do you pasture <07462> your sheep? Where <0349> do you rest <07257> your sheep during the midday <06672> heat? Tell me lest I wander around <05844> beside <05921> the flocks <05739> of your companions <02270>!
8The Lover to His Beloved: If <0518> you do not <03808> know <03045>, O most beautiful <03303> of women <0802>, simply follow <03318> the tracks <06119> of my flock <06629>, and pasture <07462> your little lambs <01429> beside <05921> the tents <04908> of the shepherds <07462>.
9The Lover to His Beloved: O my beloved <07474>, you are like <01819> a mare <05484> among Pharaoh’s <06547> stallions <07393>.
10Your cheeks <03895> are beautiful <04998> with ornaments <08447>; your neck <06677> is lovely with strings of jewels <02737>.
11We will make <06213> for you gold <02091> ornaments <08447> studded <05351> with <05973> silver <03701>.
12The Beloved about Her Lover: While <05704> the king <04428> was at his banqueting table <04524>, my nard <05373> gave <05414> forth its fragrance <07381>.
13My beloved <01730> is like a fragrant pouch <06872> of myrrh <04753> spending the night <03885> between <0996> my breasts <07699>.
14My beloved <01730> is like a cluster <0811> of henna <03724> blossoms in the vineyards <03754> of En-Gedi <05872>.
15The Lover to His Beloved: Oh <02005>, how beautiful <03303> you are, my beloved <07474>! Oh <02005>, how beautiful <03303> you are! Your eyes <05869> are like doves <03123>!
16The Beloved to Her Lover: Oh, how <02005> handsome <03303> you are, my lover <01730>! Oh, how delightful <05273> you are! The lush foliage <07488> is our canopied bed <06210>;
17the cedars <0730> are the beams <06982> of our bedroom chamber <01004>; the pines <01266> are the rafters <07351> of our bedroom.