Song of Solomon 1

1The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.Cross-references: 1Ki 4:32 · Ps 14:1 · Isa 5:1

2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.Cross-references: Gen 27:26 · Gen 29:11 · Gen 45:15 · Ps 2:12 · Ps 36:7 · Ps 63:3 · +14 more

3Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.Cross-references: Ex 30:23 · Ex 33:12 · Ex 33:19 · Ex 34:5 · Ps 45:7 · Ps 45:14 · +20 more

4Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.Cross-references: Ps 42:4 · Ps 45:14 · Ps 48:9 · Ps 63:5 · Ps 98:4 · Ps 103:1 · +30 more

5I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.Cross-references: Ps 45:9 · Ps 90:17 · Ps 120:5 · Ps 149:4 · Song 2:7 · Song 2:14 · +21 more

6Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.Cross-references: Ruth 1:19 · Job 30:30 · Ps 69:8 · Song 8:11 · Jer 8:21 · Jer 12:6 · +9 more

7Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?Cross-references: Gen 37:16 · 1Sam 12:20 · Ps 18:1 · Ps 23:1 · Ps 28:1 · Ps 80:1 · +25 more

8If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.Cross-references: Ps 16:3 · Ps 45:11 · Ps 45:13 · Prov 8:34 · Song 1:15 · Song 2:10 · +19 more

9I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.Cross-references: 1Ki 10:28 · 2Chr 1:14 · Song 1:15 · Song 2:2 · Song 2:10 · Song 2:13 · +6 more

10Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.Cross-references: Gen 24:22 · Gen 24:47 · Gen 41:42 · Num 31:50 · Prov 1:9 · Song 4:9 · +6 more

11We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver.Cross-references: Gen 1:26 · Ps 149:4 · Song 8:9 · Eph 5:25 · Phil 3:21

12While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.Cross-references: Ps 45:1 · Song 4:13 · Song 7:5 · Matt 22:4 · Matt 22:11 · Matt 25:34 · +7 more

13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.Cross-references: Gen 43:11 · Ps 45:8 · Song 2:7 · Song 3:5 · Song 4:6 · Song 4:14 · +6 more

14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.Cross-references: Josh 15:62 · 1Sam 23:29 · Song 1:13 · Song 2:3 · Song 4:13

15Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.Cross-references: Song 1:8 · Song 2:10 · Song 2:13 · Song 4:1 · Song 4:7 · Song 4:10 · +7 more

16Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.Cross-references: Ps 45:2 · Ps 110:3 · Song 2:3 · Song 3:7 · Song 5:10 · Zech 9:17 · +2 more

17The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.Cross-references: 1Ki 6:9 · 2Chr 2:8 · Ps 92:12 · Song 7:5 · Song 8:9 · Ezek 41:16 · +4 more