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Song of Solomon 1:11Solomon’s Most Excellent Love Song. The Beloved to Her Lover:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:22Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:33The fragrance of your colognes is delightful; your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:44Draw me after you; let us hurry! May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers! The Maidens to the Lover: We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. The Beloved to Her Lover: How rightly the young women adore you! The Beloved to the Maidens:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:55I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:66Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep! The Beloved to Her Lover:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:77Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions! The Lover to His Beloved:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:88If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds. The Lover to His Beloved:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:99O my beloved, you are like a mare among Pharaoh’s stallions.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:1010Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:1111We will make for you gold ornaments studded with silver. The Beloved about Her Lover:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:1212While the king was at his banqueting table, my nard gave forth its fragrance.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:1313My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrh spending the night between my breasts.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:1414My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En Gedi. The Lover to His Beloved:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:1515Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves! The Beloved to Her Lover:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:1616Oh, how handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how delightful you are! The lush foliage is our canopied bed;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Song of Solomon 1:1717the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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