1. The First Quest - Love Sought & Found in the City (1:1 - 2:7)
(a. Mutual Love and Desire -- 1:1 - 2:7)

¹ The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

Abishag (1:2-4a)

² Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:
for thy love is better than wine.
³ Because of the savour of thy good ointments
thy name is as ointment poured forth,
therefore [because of this] do the virgins love thee.
⁴ Draw me,
we will run after thee:
the king hath brought me into his chambers:

Chorus (1:4b)

we will be glad and rejoice in thee,
we will remember thy love more than wine:
the upright love thee.

Abishag (1:5-7)

⁵ I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
as the tents of Kedar,
as the curtains of Solomon.
⁶ Look not upon me,
because I am black,
because the sun hath looked upon me:
my mother's children were angry with me;
they made me the keeper of [this] the vineyards;
but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
⁷ 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?

Solomon (1:8-10)

⁸ If thou know not, O thou fairest among women,
go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock,
and feed [this] thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.
⁹ I have compared thee, O my love,
to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
¹⁰ Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels,
thy neck with chains of gold.

Abishag (1:11-14)

¹¹ We will make thee borders of gold
with studs of silver.
¹² While [this] the king sitteth at his table,
my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
¹³ A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me;
he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
¹⁴ My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire
in the vineyards of Engedi.

Solomon (1:15)

¹⁵ Behold, thou art fair, my love;
behold, thou art fair;
thou hast doves' eyes.

Abishag (1:16-17)

¹⁶ Behold, thou art fair, my beloved,
yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
¹⁷ The beams of our house are cedar,
and our rafters of fir.