1. The Song—best of all songs—Solomon’s song!
4. Take me away with you! Let’s run off together!An elopement with my King-Lover!We’ll celebrate, we’ll sing,we’ll make great music.Yes! For your love is better than vintage wine.Everyone loves you—of course! And why not?
7. Tell me where you’re working—I love you so much—Tell me where you’re tending your flocks,where you let them rest at noontime.Why should I be the one left out,outside the orbit of your tender care?
8. If you can’t find me, loveliest of all women,it’s all right. Stay with your flocks.Lead your lambs to good pasture.Stay with your shepherd neighbors.
12-14. When my King-Lover lay down beside me,my fragrance filled the room.His head resting between my breasts—the head of my lover was a sachet of sweet myrrh.My beloved is a bouquet of wildflowerspicked just for me from the fields of Engedi.
15. Oh, my dear friend! You’re so beautiful!And your eyes so beautiful—like doves!