Song of Solomon (KJV)
8 chapters · 117 verses. Choose a chapter to read it in the King James Version.
About the Book of Song of Solomon
The Song of Solomon is a collection of love poetry celebrating the beauty, desire, and mutual delight of marital love. It honors covenant love as a good gift, and has long been read as also evoking God's love for his people.
- Genre
- Poetry (love song)
- Author
- Traditionally attributed to Solomon
- First audience
- Israel; readers of covenant love poetry
How to read it: Read as poetry — savor the imagery without over-allegorizing or pressing details into doctrine.
It opens: “The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.” (Song of Solomon 1:1)
Chapters
Key verses in Song of Solomon
The verses of Song of Solomon that the rest of Scripture cross-references most often.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
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?
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
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; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.