The Bride Confesses Her Love (SNG 1:1-7)

She

[1:2] Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;

[1:3] your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.

[1:4] Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers.

Others

We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.

She

[1:5] I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

[1:6] Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!

[1:7] Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?