Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Song of Solomon 1

1 Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine,

2 Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.3 Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments.4 The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the righteous love thee.5 (1-4) I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.6 (1-5) Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.

7 (1-6) Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.8 (1-7) If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and follow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents of the shepherds.9 (1-8) To my company of horsemen, in Pharao’s chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.10 (1-9) Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove’s, thy neck as jewels.11 (1-10) We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

12 (1-11) While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.13 (1-12) A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts.14 (1-13) A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.15 (1-14) Behold thou are fair, O my love, behold thou are fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.16 (1-15) Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.17 (1-16) The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.

 
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