Song of Solomon 1-3

From today's Bible reading:

Song of Solomon 1:

The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant;
your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.
Draw me after you; let us run.

The king has brought me into his chambers.

I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem,
like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me.

My mother's sons were angry with me;
they made me keeper of the vineyards,
but my own vineyard I have not kept!

Song of Solomon 2:

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.

His left hand is under my head,
and his right hand embraces me!

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.

Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away,
for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.

Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
and come away.

O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,
in the crannies of the cliff,

let me see your face, let me hear your voice,
for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.

My beloved is mine, and I am his

Song of Solomon 3:

On my bed by night
I sought him whom my soul loves;
I sought him, but found him not.

I will rise now and go about the city,
in the streets and in the squares;
I will seek him whom my soul loves.

I sought him, but found him not.
The watchmen found me
as they went about in the city.
“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

Scarcely had I passed them
when I found him whom my soul loves.

I held him, and would not let him go
until I had brought him into my mother's house,
and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.

Go out, O daughters of Zion,
and look upon King Solomon,
with the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
on the day of the gladness of his heart.