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Song of Solomon
KJV with Apocrypha
Unverified edition · Chapter 1
Reading language: English · Original language (catalog): Hebrew / Aramaic
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Chapter 1 · All reading sections
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Song of Solomon 1:1
The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
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Song of Solomon 1:2
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
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Song of Solomon 1:3
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
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Song of Solomon 1:4
Draw 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.
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Song of Solomon 1:5
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
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Song of Solomon 1:6
Look 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.
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Song of Solomon 1:7
Tell 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?
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Song of Solomon 1:8
If 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.
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Song of Solomon 1:9
I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
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Song of Solomon 1:10
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
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Song of Solomon 1:11
We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
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Song of Solomon 1:12
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
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Song of Solomon 1:13
A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
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Song of Solomon 1:14
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.
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Song of Solomon 1:15
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
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Song of Solomon 1:16
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
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Song of Solomon 1:17
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
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- Chapter 3 · 11 passage record(s)
- Chapter 4 · 16 passage record(s)
- Chapter 5 · 16 passage record(s)
- Chapter 6 · 13 passage record(s)
- Chapter 7 · 13 passage record(s)
- Chapter 8 · 14 passage record(s)
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