We will be happy together … and lose ourselves in love.
(Song of Solomon 1:1, Good News Bible)
Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks
and falls along your neck like jewels.
(Song of Solomon 1:10, Good News Bible)
I am only a wild flower in Sharon,
a lily in a mountain valley.
(Song of Solomon 2:1, Good News Bible)
Like a lily among thorns is my darling among women.
(Song of Solomon 2:2)
He brought me to his banquet hall
and raised the banner of
love over me.
(Song of Solomon 2:4, Good News Bible)
Feed me with your love.
(Song of Solomon 2:5, Living Bible)
My lover is like a gazelle,
like a young stag.
(Song of Solomon, 2:9, Good News Bible)
You are like a dove that hides
in the crevice of a rock.
Let me see your lovely face
and hear your enchanting voice.
(Song of Solomon 2:14, Good News Bible)
Your hair dances like a flock of goats
bounding down the hills of Gilead.
(Song of Solomon 4:1 / 6:5, Good News Bible)
Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.
(Song of Solomon 4:5)
Your love delights me.
(Song of Solomon 4:10, Good News Bible)
My sweetheart, my bride, is a secret garden,
a walled garden, a private spring.
(Song of Solomon 4:12, Good News Bible)
Eat, lovers, and drink
until you are drunk with love!
(Song of Solomon 5:1, Good News Bible)
My lover thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him. I arose to open for my lover, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the lock. I opened for my lover, but my lover had left; he was gone.
(Song of Solomon 5:4-6)
My lover is mine, and I am his.
(Song of Solomon 6:3, Good News Bible)
I love only one,
and she is as lovely as a dove.
(Song of Solomon 6:9, Good News Bible)
You have made me as eager for love
as a chariot driver is for battle.
(Song of Solomon 6:12, Good News Bible)
How pretty you are,
how beautiful,
How complete the delights of your love.
You are as graceful as a palm tree,
and your breasts are clusters of dates.
(Song of Solomon 7:6-7, Good News Bible)
I have kept for you the old delights and the new.
(Song of Solomon 7:13, Good News Bible)
Love is as strong as death;
Passion is as strong as death itself.
(Song of Solomon 8:6, Good News Bible)
Come to me, my lover, like a gazelle,
like a young stage on the mountains where spices grow.
(Song of Solomon 8:14, Good News Bible)