The fragrance of your perfume is intoxicating;(A)
your name is perfume poured out.(B)
No wonder young women[a] adore you.
Take me with you(C)—let’s hurry.
Oh, that the king would bring[b] me to his chambers.

Young Women

We will rejoice and be glad in you;
we will celebrate your caresses more than wine.

Woman

It is only right that they adore you.

Daughters of Jerusalem,(D)
I am dark like the tents of Kedar,(E)
yet lovely(F) like the curtains of Solomon.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:3 Or wonder virgins
  2. 1:4 Or The king has brought

Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;(A)
    your name(B) is like perfume poured out.
    No wonder the young women(C) love you!
Take me away with you—let us hurry!
    Let the king bring me into his chambers.(D)

Friends

We rejoice and delight(E) in you[a];
    we will praise your love(F) more than wine.

She

How right they are to adore you!

Dark am I, yet lovely,(G)
    daughters of Jerusalem,(H)
dark like the tents of Kedar,(I)
    like the tent curtains of Solomon.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 1:4 The Hebrew is masculine singular.
  2. Song of Songs 1:5 Or Salma