Opening the chapter…
Opening the chapter…
Gloryian · © Guini Productions LLC
This is King Solomon's most beautiful song.
I wish he would kiss me on my lips,
The fragrance of the perfume on your skin is very sweet. And your honor is very great and is spreading, like the fragrance of the special oil that you have put on your skin. That is why the other young women are attracted to you.
Take me quickly; take me to your home.
You women of Jerusalem, I am dark but beautiful; my dark skin is like the tents in Kedar, or like the beautiful curtains in Solomon's palace.
But do not stare at me because the sun has made my skin dark. my brothers were angry with me, so they forced me to work out in the sunshine in the vineyards, so I was not able to take good care of my body.
You whom I love, where will you take your flock of sheep today? Where will you allow them to rest at noontime? I want to know because it is not right for me to wander around like a prostitute looking for you among the flocks that belong to your friends.
You who are the most beautiful of all the women, if you search for me and do not know where I will take my sheep, follow the tracks of the sheep. Then allow your young goats to graze near the shepherds' tents.
You are beautiful, my darling, like one of the young female horses that pull the chariots belonging to the king of Egypt.
Your earrings are decorations for your cheeks, and there are strings of beads around your neck.
I will make for you some gold earrings that are decorated with silver.
While the king was on his couch, the smell of my perfume spread around the room.
The man who loves me stays between my breasts during the night like a bag of perfume tied around my neck.
He is like a bunch of flowers from the vineyards at En Gedi.
You whom I love, you are beautiful; you are very beautiful! Your eyes are as delightful as doves.
You who love me, you are very delightful, you are wonderful! This green grass in the countryside will be like a couch where we can lie down.
Branches of cedar trees will shade us; the fir branches overhead are like a roof for us.
Unlocked Dynamic Bible. Original work of the Unlocked Dynamic Bible in English available at https://unfoldingword.org/udb/. By the Door43 World Missions Community (Wycliffe Associates release v19-10); based on A Translation for Translators by Ellis W. Deibler, Jr. (CC BY-SA 4.0). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: Door43 WycliffeAssociates/en_udb release v19-10. Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio (including text-to-speech) and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where a verse number appears twice in the source, the first copy is shown. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.