The Song of Solomon
Chapter links: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8
Song Chapter 1 Ordered by Punctuation
Links to sentences in this chapter:
C1-S1 (Verse 1-2),
C1-S2 (Verse 2-4),
C1-S3 (Verse 4-6),
C1-S4 (Verse 6-8),
C1-S5 (Verse 8-10),
C1-S6 (Verse 10-12),
C1-S7 (Verse 12-14),
C1-S8 (Verse 14-16),
C1-S9 (Verse 16-18),
C1-S10 (Verse 18-20),
C1-S11 (Verse 20-22),
C1-S12 (Verse 22-24),
C1-S13 (Verse 24-26),
C1-S14 (Verse 26-28),
C1-S15 (Verse 28-30),
C1-S16 (Verse 30-32),
C1-S17 (Verse 32-34).
C1-S1 (Verse 1) Each phrase below has equal importance.
The song of songs,
which is Solomon's.
C1-S2 (Verse 2) This sentence has equivalent sections.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:
for thy love is better than wine.
C1-S3 (Verse 3) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth,
therefore do the virgins love thee.
C1-S4 (Verse 4) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Draw me,
we will run after thee:
the king hath brought me into his chambers:
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we will be glad and rejoice in thee,
we will remember thy love more than wine:
the upright love thee.
C1-S5 (Verse 5) Each phrase below has equal importance.
I am black,
but comely,
O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
as the tents of Kedar,
as the curtains of Solomon.
C1-S6 (Verse 6) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Look not upon me,
because I am black,
because the sun hath looked upon me:
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my mother's children were angry with me;
they made me the keeper of the vineyards;
but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
C1-S7 (Verse 7) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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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?
C1-S8 (Verse 8) Each phrase below has equal importance.
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.
C1-S9 (Verse 9) Each phrase below has equal importance.
I have compared thee,
O my love,
to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
C1-S10 (Verse 10) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels ,
thy neck with chains of gold .
C1-S11 (Verse 11) We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
C1-S12 (Verse 12) Each phrase below has equal importance.
While the king sitteth at his table,
my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
C1-S13 (Verse 13) Parts of sentence below are steps.
A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me;
he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
C1-S14 (Verse 14) My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.
C1-S15 (Verse 15) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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Behold,
thou art fair,
my love;
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behold,
thou art fair;
thou hast doves' eyes.
C1-S16 (Verse 16) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Behold,
thou art fair,
my beloved,
yea,
pleasant:
also our bed is green.
C1-S17 (Verse 17) Each phrase below has equal importance.
The beams of our house are cedar,
and our rafters of fir.
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Song Chapter 2 Ordered by Punctuation
Links to sentences in this chapter:
C2-S1 (Verse 1-2),
C2-S2 (Verse 2-4),
C2-S3 (Verse 4-6),
C2-S4 (Verse 6),
C2-S5,
C2-S6 (Verse 8-10),
C2-S7 (Verse 10-12),
C2-S8 (Verse 12-14),
C2-S9 (Verse 14-16),
C2-S10 (Verse 16),
C2-S11,
C2-S12 (Verse 18-20),
C2-S13 (Verse 20-24),
C2-S14 (Verse 24),
C2-S15,
C2-S16 (Verse 26-28),
C2-S17 (Verse 28-30),
C2-S18 (Verse 30-32).
C2-S1 (Verse 1) Each phrase below has equal importance.
I am the rose of Sharon,
and the lily of the valleys.
C2-S2 (Verse 2) Each phrase below has equal importance.
As the lily among thorns,
so is my love among the daughters.
C2-S3 (Verse 3) Each phrase below has equal importance.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,
so is my beloved among the sons.
C2-S4 (Verse 3) Each phrase below has equal importance.
I sat down under his shadow with great delight,
and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
C2-S5 (Verse 4) Each phrase below has equal importance.
He brought me to the banqueting house,
and his banner over me was love.
C2-S6 (Verse 5) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Stay me with flagons,
comfort me with apples:
for I am sick of love.
C2-S7 (Verse 6) Each phrase below has equal importance.
His left hand is under my head,
and his right hand doth embrace me.
C2-S8 (Verse 7) Each phrase below has equal importance.
I charge you,
O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes,
and by the hinds of the field,
that ye stir not up,
nor awake my love,
till he please.
C2-S9 (Verse 8) The voice of my beloved!
C2-S10 (Verse 8) Each phrase below has equal importance.
behold,
he cometh leaping upon the mountains,
skipping upon the hills.
C2-S11 (Verse 9) This sentence has equivalent sections.
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart:
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behold,
he standeth behind our wall,
he looketh forth at the windows,
shewing himself through the lattice.
C2-S12 (Verse 10) Each phrase below has equal importance.
My beloved spake,
and said unto me,
Rise up,
my love,
my fair one,
and come away.
C2-S13 (Verse 11-13) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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For,
lo,
the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
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the time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
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The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
C2-S14 (Verse 13) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Arise,
my love,
my fair one,
and come away.
C2-S15 (Verse 14) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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O my dove,
that art in the clefts of the rock,
in the secret places of the stairs,
let me see thy countenance,
let me hear thy voice;
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for sweet is thy voice,
and thy countenance is comely.
C2-S16 (Verse 15) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Take us the foxes,
the little foxes,
that spoil the vines:
for our vines have tender grapes.
C2-S17 (Verse 16) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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My beloved is mine,
and I am his:
he feedeth among the lilies.
C2-S18 (Verse 17) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Until the day break,
and the shadows flee away,
turn,
my beloved,
and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
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Song Chapter 3 Ordered by Punctuation
Links to sentences in this chapter:
C3-S1 (Verse 1-2),
C3-S2 (Verse 2-4),
C3-S3 (Verse 4-6),
C3-S4 (Verse 6-8),
C3-S5 (Verse 8-10),
C3-S6 (Verse 10-12),
C3-S7 (Verse 12-14),
C3-S8 (Verse 14-16),
C3-S9 (Verse 16-18),
C3-S10 (Verse 18-20),
C3-S11 (Verse 20-22).
C3-S1 (Verse 1) This sentence has equivalent sections.
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth:
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I sought him,
but I found him not.
C3-S2 (Verse 2) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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I will rise now,
and go about the city in the streets,
and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth:
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I sought him,
but I found him not.
C3-S3 (Verse 3) This sentence has equivalent sections.
The watchmen that go about the city found me:
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to whom I said ,
Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
C3-S4 (Verse 4) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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It was but a little that I passed from them,
but I found him whom my soul loveth:
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I held him,
and would not let him go,
until I had brought him into my mother's house,
and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
C3-S5 (Verse 5) Each phrase below has equal importance.
I charge you,
O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes,
and by the hinds of the field,
that ye stir not up,
nor awake my love,
till he please.
C3-S6 (Verse 6) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all powders of the merchant?
C3-S7 (Verse 7) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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Behold his bed,
which is Solomon's;
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threescore valiant men are about it,
of the valiant of Israel.
C3-S8 (Verse 8) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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They all hold swords,
being expert in war:
every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
C3-S9 (Verse 9) King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
C3-S10 (Verse 10) Each phrase below has equal importance.
He made the pillars thereof of silver,
the bottom thereof of gold,
the covering of it of purple,
the midst thereof being paved with love,
for the daughters of Jerusalem.
C3-S11 (Verse 11) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Go forth,
O ye daughters of Zion,
and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals,
and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
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Song Chapter 4 Ordered by Punctuation
Links to sentences in this chapter:
C4-S1 (Verse 1-2),
C4-S2 (Verse 2-4),
C4-S3 (Verse 4-6),
C4-S4 (Verse 6-8),
C4-S5 (Verse 8-10),
C4-S6 (Verse 10-12),
C4-S7 (Verse 12-14),
C4-S8 (Verse 14-16),
C4-S9 (Verse 16-18),
C4-S10 (Verse 18-20),
C4-S11 (Verse 20),
C4-S12,
C4-S13,
C4-S14 (Verse 22-24),
C4-S15 (Verse 24-28),
C4-S16 (Verse 28-30),
C4-S17 (Verse 30).
C4-S1 (Verse 1) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Behold,
thou art fair,
my love;
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behold,
thou art fair;
thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks:
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thy hair is as a flock of goats,
that appear from mount Gilead.
C4-S2 (Verse 2) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn,
which came up from the washing;
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whereof every one bear twins,
and none is barren among them.
C4-S3 (Verse 3) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet,
and thy speech is comely:
thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
C4-S4 (Verse 4) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury,
whereon there hang a thousand bucklers,
all shields of mighty men.
C4-S5 (Verse 5) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins,
which feed among the lilies.
C4-S6 (Verse 6) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Until the day break,
and the shadows flee away,
I will get me to the mountain of myrrh,
and to the hill of frankincense.
C4-S7 (Verse 7) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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Thou art all fair,
my love;
there is no spot in thee.
C4-S8 (Verse 8) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Come with me from Lebanon,
my spouse,
with me from Lebanon:
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look from the top of Amana,
from the top of Shenir and Hermon,
from the lions' dens,
from the mountains of the leopards.
C4-S9 (Verse 9) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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Thou hast ravished my heart,
my sister,
my spouse;
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thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes,
with one chain of thy neck.
C4-S10 (Verse 10) Each phrase below has equal importance.
How fair is thy love,
my sister,
my spouse!
C4-S11 (Verse 10) how much better is thy love than wine!
C4-S12 (Verse 10) and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
C4-S13 (Verse 11) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Thy lips,
O my spouse,
drop as the honeycomb:
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honey and milk are under thy tongue;
and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
C4-S14 (Verse 12) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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A garden inclosed is my sister,
my spouse;
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a spring shut up,
a fountain sealed.
C4-S15 (Verse 13-15) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates,
with pleasant fruits;
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camphire,
with spikenard,
Spikenard and saffron;
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calamus and cinnamon,
with all trees of frankincense;
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myrrh and aloes,
with all the chief spices:
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A fountain of gardens,
a well of living waters,
and streams from Lebanon.
C4-S16 (Verse 16) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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Awake,
O north wind;
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and come,
thou south;
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blow upon my garden,
that the spices thereof may flow out.
C4-S17 (Verse 16) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Let my beloved come into his garden,
and eat his pleasant fruits.
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Song Chapter 5 Ordered by Punctuation
Links to sentences in this chapter:
C5-S1 (Verse 1-2),
C5-S2 (Verse 2),
C5-S3 (Verse 3),
C5-S4 (Verse 3),
C5-S5 (Verse 4),
C5-S6 (Verse 5),
C5-S7 (Verse 6),
C5-S8 (Verse 7),
C5-S9 (Verse 8),
C5-S10 (Verse 9),
C5-S11 (Verse 9),
C5-S12 (Verse 10),
C5-S13 (Verse 11),
C5-S14 (Verse 12),
C5-S15 (Verse 13),
C5-S16 (Verse 14),
C5-S14 (Verse 15),
C5-S15 (Verse 16),
C5-S16 (Verse 16).
C5-S1 (Verse 1) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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I am come into my garden,
my sister,
my spouse:
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I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
I have drunk my wine with my milk:
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eat,
O friends;
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drink,
yea,
drink abundantly,
O beloved.
C5-S2 (Verse 2) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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I sleep,
but my heart waketh:
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it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh,
saying ,
Open to me,
my sister,
my love,
my dove,
my undefiled:
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for my head is filled with dew,
and my locks with the drops of the night.
C5-S3 (Verse 3) Parts of sentence below are steps.
I have put off my coat;
how shall I put it on?
C5-S4 (Verse 3) Parts of sentence below are steps.
I have washed my feet;
how shall I defile them?
C5-S5 (Verse 4) Each phrase below has equal importance.
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door ,
and my bowels were moved for him.
C5-S6 (Verse 5) Parts of sentence below are steps.
I rose up to open to my beloved;
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and my hands dropped with myrrh,
and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh,
upon the handles of the lock.
C5-S7 (Verse 6) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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I opened to my beloved;
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but my beloved had withdrawn himself,
and was gone:
my soul failed when he spake:
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I sought him,
but I could not find him;
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I called him,
but he gave me no answer.
C5-S8 (Verse 7) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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The watchmen that went about the city found me,
they smote me,
they wounded me;
the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
C5-S9 (Verse 8) Each phrase below has equal importance.
I charge you,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
if ye find my beloved,
that ye tell him,
that I am sick of love.
C5-S10 (Verse 9) Each phrase below has equal importance.
What is thy beloved more than another beloved,
O thou fairest among women?
C5-S11 (Verse 9) Each phrase below has equal importance.
what is thy beloved more than another beloved,
that thou dost so charge us?
C5-S12 (Verse 10) Each phrase below has equal importance.
My beloved is white and ruddy,
the chiefest among ten thousand.
C5-S13 (Verse 11) Each phrase below has equal importance.
His head is as the most fine gold,
his locks are bushy,
and black as a raven.
C5-S14 (Verse 12) Each phrase below has equal importance.
His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters,
washed with milk,
and fitly set.
C5-S15 (Verse 13) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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His cheeks are as a bed of spices,
as sweet flowers:
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his lips like lilies,
dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
C5-S16 (Verse 14) This sentence has equivalent sections.
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl:
his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
C5-S17 (Verse 15) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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His legs are as pillars of marble,
set upon sockets of fine gold:
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his countenance is as Lebanon,
excellent as the cedars.
C5-S18 (Verse 16) This sentence has equivalent sections.
His mouth is most sweet:
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yea,
he is altogether lovely.
C5-S19 (Verse 16) Each phrase below has equal importance.
This is my beloved,
and this is my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.
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Song Chapter 6 Ordered by Punctuation
Links to sentences in this chapter:
C6-S1 (Verse 1),
C6-S2 (Verse 1),
C6-S3 (Verse 1),
C6-S4 (Verse 2),
C6-S5 (Verse 3),
C6-S6 (Verse 4),
C6-S7 (Verse 5),
C6-S8 (Verse 6),
C6-S9 (Verse 7),
C6-S10 (Verse 8),
C6-S11 (Verse 9),
C6-S12 (Verse 9),
C6-S13 (Verse 10),
C6-S14 (Verse 11),
C6-S15 (Verse 12),
C6-S16 (Verse 13),
C6-S17 (Verse 13),
C6-S18 (Verse 13).
C6-S1 (Verse 1) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Whither is thy beloved gone,
O thou fairest among women?
C6-S2 (Verse 1) whither is thy beloved turned aside?
C6-S3 (Verse 1) that we may seek him with thee.
C6-S4 (Verse 2) Each phrase below has equal importance.
My beloved is gone down into his garden,
to the beds of spices,
to feed in the gardens,
and to gather lilies.
C6-S5 (Verse 3) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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I am my beloved's,
and my beloved is mine:
he feedeth among the lilies.
C6-S6 (Verse 4) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Thou art beautiful,
O my love,
as Tirzah,
comely as Jerusalem,
terrible as an army with banners.
C6-S7 (Verse 5) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Turn away thine eyes from me,
for they have overcome me:
thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
C6-S8 (Verse 6) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing,
whereof every one beareth twins,
and there is not one barren among them.
C6-S9 (Verse 7) As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
C6-S10 (Verse 8) Each phrase below has equal importance.
There are threescore queens,
and fourscore concubines,
and virgins without number.
C6-S11 (Verse 9) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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My dove,
my undefiled is but one;
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she is the only one of her mother,
she is the choice one of her that bare her.
C6-S12 (Verse 9) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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The daughters saw her,
and blessed her;
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yea ,
the queens and the concubines,
and they praised her.
C6-S13 (Verse 10) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning,
fair as the moon,
clear as the sun,
and terrible as an army with banners?
C6-S14 (Verse 11) Each phrase below has equal importance.
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley,
and to see whether the vine flourished,
and the pomegranates budded.
C6-S15 (Verse 12) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Or ever I was aware,
my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.
C6-S16 (Verse 13) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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Return,
return,
O Shulamite;
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return,
return,
that we may look upon thee.
C6-S17 (Verse 13) What will ye see in the Shulamite?
C6-S18 (Verse 13) As it were the company of two armies.
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Song Chapter 7 Ordered by Punctuation
Links to sentences in this chapter:
C7-S1,
C7-S2 (Verse 2),
C7-S3,
C7-S4 (Verse 4-6),
C7-S5 (Verse 6-8),
C7-S6 (Verse 8-10),
C7-S7 (Verse 10-12),
C7-S8 (Verse 12-14),
C7-S9 (Verse 14-17),
C7-S10 (Verse 17-19),
C7-S11 (Verse 19-21),
C7-S12 (Verse 21-23),
C7-S13 (Verse 23-25).
C7-S1 (Verse 1) Each phrase below has equal importance.
How beautiful are thy feet with shoes,
O prince's daughter!
C7-S2 (Verse 1) Each phrase below has equal importance.
the joints of thy thighs are like jewels,
the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
C7-S3 (Verse 2) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Thy navel is like a round goblet,
which wanteth not liquor:
thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
C7-S4 (Verse 3) Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
C7-S5 (Verse 4) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Thy neck is as a tower of ivory;
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thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim:
thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
C7-S6 (Verse 5) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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Thine head upon thee is like Carmel,
and the hair of thine head like purple;
the king is held in the galleries.
C7-S7 (Verse 6) Each phrase below has equal importance.
How fair and how pleasant art thou,
O love,
for delights!
C7-S8 (Verse 7) Each phrase below has equal importance.
This thy stature is like to a palm tree,
and thy breasts to clusters of grapes .
C7-S9 (Verse 8-9) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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I said,
I will go up to the palm tree,
I will take hold of the boughs thereof:
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now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine,
and the smell of thy nose like apples;
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And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved,
that goeth down sweetly,
causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
C7-S10 (Verse 10) Each phrase below has equal importance.
I am my beloved's,
and his desire is toward me.
C7-S11 (Verse 11) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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Come,
my beloved,
let us go forth into the field;
let us lodge in the villages.
C7-S12 (Verse 12) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Let us get up early to the vineyards;
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let us see if the vine flourish,
whether the tender grape appear,
and the pomegranates bud forth:
there will I give thee my loves.
C7-S13 (Verse 13) Each phrase below has equal importance.
The mandrakes give a smell,
and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits ,
new and old,
which I have laid up for thee,
O my beloved.
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Links to sentences in this chapter:
C8-S1 (Verse 1-2),
C8-S2 (Verse 2),
C8-S3,
C8-S4 (Verse 4-6),
C8-S5 (Verse 6-8),
C8-S6 (Verse 8-10),
C8-S7 (Verse 10),
C8-S8,
C8-S9 (Verse 12-14),
C8-S10 (Verse 14-16),
C8-S11 (Verse 16-18),
C8-S12 (Verse 18-20),
C8-S13 (Verse 20-22),
C8-S14 (Verse 22-24),
C8-S15 (Verse 24-26),
C8-S16 (Verse 26).
C8-S1 (Verse 1) Each phrase below has equal importance.
O that thou wert as my brother,
that sucked the breasts of my mother!
C8-S2 (Verse 1) Parts of sentence below are steps.
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when I should find thee without,
I would kiss thee;
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yea,
I should not be despised.
C8-S3 (Verse 2) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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I would lead thee,
and bring thee into my mother's house,
who would instruct me:
I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
C8-S4 (Verse 3) Each phrase below has equal importance.
His left hand should be under my head,
and his right hand should embrace me.
C8-S5 (Verse 4) Each phrase below has equal importance.
I charge you,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
that ye stir not up,
nor awake my love,
until he please.
C8-S6 (Verse 5) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness,
leaning upon her beloved?
C8-S7 (Verse 5) This sentence has equivalent sections.
I raised thee up under the apple tree:
there thy mother brought thee forth:
there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
C8-S8 (Verse 6) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Set me as a seal upon thine heart,
as a seal upon thine arm:
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for love is strong as death;
jealousy is cruel as the grave:
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the coals thereof are coals of fire,
which hath a most vehement flame.
C8-S9 (Verse 7) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it:
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if a man would give all the substance of his house for love,
it would utterly be contemned.
C8-S10 (Verse 8) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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We have a little sister,
and she hath no breasts:
what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
C8-S11 (Verse 9) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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If she be a wall,
we will build upon her a palace of silver:
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and if she be a door,
we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
C8-S12 (Verse 10) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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I am a wall,
and my breasts like towers:
then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
C8-S13 (Verse 11) Parts of sentence below are steps.
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
he let out the vineyard unto keepers;
every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
C8-S14 (Verse 12) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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My vineyard,
which is mine,
is before me:
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thou,
O Solomon,
must have a thousand,
and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
C8-S15 (Verse 13) This sentence has equivalent sections.
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Thou that dwellest in the gardens,
the companions hearken to thy voice:
cause me to hear it .
C8-S16 (Verse 13) Each phrase below has equal importance.
Make haste,
my beloved,
and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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