6Q6 Canticles (Song of Solomon)

Language: Hebrew

Date: About 50 A.D.

Location: Qumran Cave 6

Contents: Song of Solomon 1:1-7

 

Song of Solomon 1

1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

Beloved

2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;

for your love is better than wine.

3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. The fragrance of oils is pleasant.

Your name is oil poured out,

therefore the virgins love you.

4 Take me away with you.

Let us hurry.

The king has brought me into his rooms.

Friends

We will be glad and rejoice rejoice and be glad in you.

We will praise your love more than wine!

Beloved

They are right to love you. How right are your loved ones.

5 I am dark, but lovely,

you daughters of Jerusalem,

like Kedar’s tents,

like Solomon’s curtains.

6 Don’t stare at me because I am dark,

because the sun has scorched me.

My mother’s sons were angry with me.

They made me keeper of the vineyards.

I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves,

where you graze your flock,

where you rest them at noon;

For why should I be as one who is veiled

beside the flocks of your companions?