I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots. Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels. We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver. While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

Traditional attribution

Verse 1:1 says “Solomon’s,” which in Hebrew can mean by, for, or about.

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