Songs 1:2
Good News Translation
Your lips cover me with kisses; your love is better than wine.

New Revised Standard Version
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine,

Contemporary English Version
Kiss me tenderly! Your love is better than wine,

New American Bible
Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.

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Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.

him

Songs 5:16 His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.

Songs 8:1 Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me?

Genesis 26:26,27 To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara, . . .

Genesis 29:11 And having watered the flock, he kissed her: and lifting up his voice wept.

Genesis 45:15 And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and wept upon every one of them: after which they were emboldened to speak to him.

Psalm 2:12 Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. [13] When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.

Luke 15:20 And rising up, he came to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion and running to him fell upon his neck and kissed him.

Acts 21:7 But we, having finished the voyage by sea, from Tyre came down to Ptolemais: and saluting the brethren, we abode one day with them.

1 Peter 5:14 Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

thy love

Songs 1:4 I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Songs 2:4 He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in me.

Songs 4:10 How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.

Songs 7:6,9,12 How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights! . . .

Songs 8:2 I will take hold of thee, and bring thee into my mother's house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates.

Psalm 36:7 O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of men shall put their trust under the cover of thy wings.

Psalm 63:3-5 For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips will praise. . . .

Isaiah 25:6 And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this mountain, a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees.

Isaiah 55:1,2 All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price. . . .

Matthew 26:26 And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my body.

Context
The Bride Confesses Her Love
1Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine, 2Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.3Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the rightous love thee.…
Cross References
Songs 1:4
I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Songs 4:10
How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.

Songs 1:1
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