{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/sol001.htm","path":"bib/kjv/sol001.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/sol001.htm","text":"1\u00a0The song of songs, which is Solomon's.\n \n2\u00a0Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.\n \n3\u00a0Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.\n \n4\u00a0Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.\n \n5\u00a0I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.\n \n6\u00a0Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.\n \n7\u00a0Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?\n \n8\u00a0If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.\n \n9\u00a0I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.\n \n10\u00a0Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.\n \n11\u00a0We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.\n \n12\u00a0While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.\n \n13\u00a0A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.\n \n14\u00a0My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.\n \n15\u00a0Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.\n \n16\u00a0Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.\n \n17\u00a0The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.","title":"King James Version: Song of Solomon (Canticles): Song of ...","type":"page"}