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    Song of Songs · 17 verses

    Song of Songs 1

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    A lover asks where the sheep lie at midday and receives directions; then the beloved is compared to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

    Perfume, vineyards, and a neglected vineyardvv. 1–6

    The song opens with a request for kisses, praise of perfume, and a swift summons to the king’s chambers. The speaker says she is dark yet lovely, compared with the tents of Kedar and the curtains of Solomon. Her mother’s sons made her keep vineyards, she says, while her own vineyard was neglected—a small, pointed mystery left standing in the sun.

    Sheep tracks and Pharaoh’s chariotsvv. 7–11

    The speaker asks where her beloved pastures his sheep and rests them at midday, unwilling to linger like a veiled woman beside his companions’ flocks. The answer is briskly practical: follow the tracks, graze the young goats near the shepherds’ tents. Then, without warning or apology, the beloved is compared to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots, followed by cheeks, jewels, and promised ornaments of gold and silver.

    Myrrh, henna, doves, and cedar beamsvv. 12–17

    At the king’s table, perfume spreads its fragrance, while the beloved becomes a sachet of myrrh and a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi. The two answer one another with extravagant admiration: beautiful eyes like doves, handsome delight, soft grass for a bed, and a house built of cedars with fragrant firs for rafters. It is a remarkably well-furnished meadow.

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    1. Song 1:1This is Solomon’s Song of Songs.

    2. Song 1:2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.

    3. Song 1:3The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.

    4. Song 1:4Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.

    5. Song 1:5I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

    6. Song 1:6Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.

    7. Song 1:7Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

    8. Song 1:8If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.

    9. Song 1:9I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

    10. Song 1:10Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

    11. Song 1:11We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with beads of silver.

    12. Song 1:12While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

    13. Song 1:13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

    14. Song 1:14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.

    15. Song 1:15How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.

    16. Song 1:16How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.

    17. Song 1:17The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.

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    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 266 passages were voted onto 16 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 10Ezekiel 16:11–13I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.
    • 15Song of Songs 4:1How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
    • 3Ecclesiastes 7:1A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
    • 3Song of Songs 4:10How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.
    • 3John 12:3Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
    • 3Exodus 30:23–28“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
    • 4Hosea 11:4I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.
    • 4John 6:44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
    • 7Song of Songs 3:1–4On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
    • 15Song of Songs 5:12His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
    • 3Philippians 2:9–10Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,
    • 4Psalms 45:14–15In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.
    • 5Luke 15:22But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
    • 3Revelation 14:4These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
    • 5Psalms 120:5Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
    • 52 Corinthians 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

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