Song of Solomon 1:1

New Life Version

The Song of Songs, the most beautiful of them all, which is Solomon's. "May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine. Your oils have a pleasing smell. Your name is like oil poured out. So the young women love you. Take me away with you, and let us run together. The king has brought me into his room. "We will have joy and be glad because of you. We will praise your love more than wine. They are right to love you. "I am dark but beautiful, O people of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not look hard at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned me. My mother's sons were angry with me, and made me take care of the grape-fields. But I have not taken care of my own grape-field. Tell me, O you whom my soul loves. In what field do you feed your flock? Where do your sheep lie down at noon? Why should I need to look for you beside the flocks of your friends?" "If you do not know, most beautiful among women, follow the path of the flock. And let your young goats eat in the field beside the tents of the shepherds. "To me, my love, you are like my horse among the war-wagons of Pharaoh. Your face is beautiful with the objects you wear, and your neck with the beautiful chain around it. We will make objects of gold and silver for you." "While the king was at his table, my perfume gave out its smell. My loved one is like a jar of perfume to me, who lies all night between my breasts. My loved one is to me like many henna flowers, in the grape-fields of Engedi." "How beautiful you are, my love! How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves." "How beautiful you are, my love, and so pleasing! Our bed is green. The pillars of our house are cedars. The pieces on our roof are pine.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.

Hebrew Names Version
The Song of songs, which is Shlomo's. Beloved

King James Version
The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

English Standard Version
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

New American Standard Bible
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

New Century Version
Solomon's Song of Songs.

Amplified Bible
The Song of Songs [the best of songs], which is Solomon's.

World English Bible
The Song of songs, which is Solomon's. Beloved

Legacy Standard Bible
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

Berean Standard Bible
Solomon's Song of Songs.

Contemporary English Version
This is Solomon's most beautiful song.

Complete Jewish Bible
The Ultimate Song, by Shlomo:

Darby Translation
The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

Easy-to-Read Version
Solomon's Most Wonderful Song.

George Lamsa Translation
THE song of songs, which is Solomons, the son of David king of Israel.

Good News Translation
The most beautiful of songs, by Solomon.

Lexham English Bible
The Song of Songs, which is for Solomon.

Literal Translation
The song of songs which is Solomon's.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Salomons Balettes, called Cantica Canticorum.

American Standard Version
The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.

Bible in Basic English
The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

King James Version (1611)
The song of songs, which is Solomons.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

English Revised Version
The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

Update Bible Version
The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.

Webster's Bible Translation
The song of songs, which [is] Solomon's.

New English Translation
Solomon's Most Excellent Love Song.

New King James Version
The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

New Living Translation
This is Solomon's song of songs, more wonderful than any other.

New Revised Standard
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The Song of Songs, which pertaineth to Solomon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine,

Revised Standard Version
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

Young's Literal Translation
The Song of Songs, that [is] Solomon's.

THE MESSAGE
The Song—best of all songs—Solomon's song!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Song of Songs, the most beautiful of them all, which is Solomon's. "May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine. Your oils have a pleasing smell. Your name is like oil poured out. So the young women love you. Take me away with you, and let us run together. The king has brought me into his room. "We will have joy and be glad because of you. We will praise your love more than wine. They are right to love you. "I am dark but beautiful, O people of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not look hard at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned me. My mother's sons were angry with me, and made me take care of the grape-fields. But I have not taken care of my own grape-field. Tell me, O you whom my soul loves. In what field do you feed your flock? Where do your sheep lie down at noon? Why should I need to look for you beside the flocks of your friends?" "If you do not know, most beautiful among women, follow the path of the flock. And let your young goats eat in the field beside the tents of the shepherds. "To me, my love, you are like my horse among the war-wagons of Pharaoh. Your face is beautiful with the objects you wear, and your neck with the beautiful chain around it. We will make objects of gold and silver for you." "While the king was at his table, my perfume gave out its smell. My loved one is like a jar of perfume to me, who lies all night between my breasts. My loved one is to me like many henna flowers, in the grape-fields of Engedi." "How beautiful you are, my love! How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves." "How beautiful you are, my love, and so pleasing! Our bed is green. The pillars of our house are cedars. The pieces on our roof are pine.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

song: Psalms 14:1, *title Isaiah 5:1

Solomon's: 1 Kings 4:32

Reciprocal: Psalms 45:1 - A song Song of Solomon 2:4 - banqueting house Ephesians 5:32 - speak Colossians 3:16 - and spiritual

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good. He divided the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:5
Then God called the light day, and He called the darkness night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.

Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let plants grow from the earth, plants that have seeds. Let fruit trees grow on the earth that bring their kind of fruit with their own seeds." And it was so.

Genesis 1:12
Plants grew out of the earth, giving their own kind of seeds. Trees grew with their fruit, and their kind of seeds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:16
Then God made the two great lights, the brighter light to rule the day, and the smaller light to rule the night. He made the stars also.

Genesis 1:17
God put them in the open space of the heavens to give light on the earth,

Genesis 1:19
There was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

Genesis 1:20
Then God said, "Let the waters be full of living things. Let birds fly above the earth in the open space of the heavens."

Genesis 1:22
God wanted good to come to them, saying, "Give birth to many. Grow in number. Fill the waters in the seas. Let birds grow in number on the earth."

Genesis 1:30
I have given every green plant for food to every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to every thing that moves on the earth that has life." And it was so.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Song of songs, which [is] Solomon's. Wrote by Solomon, king of Israel, as the "amanuensis" of the Holy Ghost; and not by Hezekiah and his men, as the Jews say k: or, "concerning Solomon" l; Christ, of whom Solomon was a type; see Song of Solomon 3:7; of his person, excellencies, love to his church, care of her, and concern for her; and of the nearness and communion he admitted her to, and indulged her with the Jews have a saying m, that wherever the word Solomon is used in this song, the Holy One is meant, the holy God, or Messiah: it is called "the Song of songs", because the most excellent, as the Holy of holies, King of kings, c. which, with the Hebrews, express a superlative this being more excellent than the one hundred and five songs, written by Solomon, or than any human composure whatever; yea, preferable to all Scriptural songs, as to subject, manner of style, and copiousness of it.

k T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 15. 1. l לשלמה "de Solomone", Cocceius. m Maimon. Yesode Hatorah, c. 6. s. 12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “Song of songs,” i. e., the best or most excellent of songs.

Which is Solomon’s - literally, “to” or “for Solomon,” i. e., belonging to Solomon as its author or concerning him as its subject. In a title or inscription, the former interpretation is to be preferred.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

THE SONG OF SOLOMON

-Year from the Creation of the World, according to Archbishop Usher, 2990.

-Year from the Flood of Noah, according to the common Hebrew text, 1334.

-Year before the birth of Christ, 1010. -Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 1014.

CHAPTER I

The bride's love to her spouse, 1-5.

She confesses her unworthiness; desires to be directed to the

flock, 6, 7;

and she is directed to the shepherds' tents, 8.

The bridegroom describes his bride, and shows how he will

provide for her, and how comfortably they are accommodated,

9-17.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse Song of Solomon 1:1. The song of songs — A song of peculiar excellence. See the Introduction. The rabbins consider this superior to all songs. TEN songs, says the Targum, have been sung; but this excels them all.

1. The first was sung by Adam when his sin was pardoned.

2. The second was sung by Moses and the Israelites at the Red Sea.

3. The third was sung by the Israelites when they drank of the rock in the wilderness.

4. The fourth was sung by Moses when summoned to depart from this world.

5. The fifth was sung by Joshua when the sun and moon stood still.

6. The sixth was sung by Deborah and Barak after the defeat of Sisera.

7. The seventh was sung by Hannah when the Lord promised her a son.

8. The eighth was sung by David for all the mercies given him by God.

9. The ninth is the present, sung in the spirit of prophecy by Solomon.

10. The tenth is that which shall be sung by the children of Israel when restored from their captivities. See the Targum.