Read the Bible

² Kiss me with the kisses of your mouth,
    because your love is better than wine.
³ The smell of your perfume is pleasant,
    and your name is pleasant like expensive perfume.
    That's why the young women love you.
⁴ Take me with you; let's run together.
    The king takes me into his rooms.

We will rejoice and be happy with you;
    we praise your love more than wine.
    With good reason, the young women love you.

⁵ I'm dark but lovely,
    women of Jerusalem,
    dark like the tents of Kedar,
    like the curtains of Solomon.
⁶ Don't look at how dark I am,
    at how dark the sun has made me.
My brothers were angry with me
    and made me tend the vineyards,
    so I haven't tended my own vineyard!
⁷ Tell me, you whom I love,
    where do you feed your sheep?
    Where do you let them rest at noon?
Why should I look for you near your friend's sheep,
    like a woman who wears a veil?^[a]

⁸ You are the most beautiful of women.
    Surely you know to follow the sheep
and feed your young goats
    near the shepherds' tents.
⁹ My darling, you are like a mare
    among the king's stallions.
¹⁰ Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments,
    and your neck with jewels.
¹¹ We will make for you gold earrings
    with silver hooks.

¹² The smell of my perfume spreads out
    to the king on his couch.
¹³ My lover is like a bag of myrrh
    that lies all night between my breasts.
¹⁴ My lover is like a bunch of flowers
    from the vineyards at En Gedi.

¹⁵ My darling, you are beautiful!
    Oh, you are beautiful,
    and your eyes are like doves.

¹⁶ You are so handsome, my lover,
    and so pleasant!
    Our bed is the grass.
¹⁷ Cedar trees form our roof;
    our ceiling is made of juniper wood.