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Song of Solomon
A series of love poems between a bride and groom, celebrating love and marriage.
Chapter 1
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1
KJV:
The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
Geneva:
An excellent song which was Salomons.
2
KJV:
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Geneva:
Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy loue is better then wine.
3
KJV:
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
Geneva:
Because of the sauour of thy good ointments thy name is as an ointment powred out: therefore the virgins loue thee.
4
KJV:
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.
Geneva:
Drawe me: we will runne after thee: the King hath brought me into his chabers: we will reioyce and be glad in thee: we will remember thy loue more then wine: the righteous do loue thee.
5
KJV:
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Geneva:
I am blacke, O daughters of Ierusalem, but comely, as the tentes of Kedar, and as the curtaines of Salomon.
6
KJV:
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.
Geneva:
Regard ye me not because I am blacke: for the sunne hath looked vpon mee. The sonnes of my mother were angry against mee: they made me the keeper of ye vines: but I kept not mine owne vine.
7
KJV:
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?
Geneva:
Shewe me, O thou, whome my soule loueth, where thou feedest, where thou liest at noone: for why should I be as she that turneth aside to the flockes of thy companions?
8
KJV:
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.
Geneva:
If thou knowe not, O thou the fairest among women, get thee foorth by the steps of the flocke, and feede thy kiddes by the tents of the shepheards.
9
KJV:
I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
Geneva:
I haue compared thee, O my loue, to the troupe of horses in the charets of Pharaoh.
10
KJV:
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
Geneva:
Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of stones, and thy necke with chaines.
11
KJV:
We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
Geneva:
We will make thee borders of golde with studdes of siluer.
12
KJV:
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
Geneva:
Whiles the King was at his repast, my spikenard gaue the smell thereof.
13
KJV:
A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
Geneva:
My welbeloued is as a bundle of myrrhe vnto me: he shall lie betweene my breasts.
14
KJV:
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
Geneva:
My welbeloued is as a cluster of camphire vnto me in the vines of Engedi.
15
KJV:
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
Geneva:
My loue, beholde, thou art faire: beholde, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues.
16
KJV:
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
Geneva:
My welbeloued, beholde, thou art faire and pleasant: also our bed is greene:
17
KJV:
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
Geneva:
The beames of our house are cedars, our rafters are of firre.
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