Song of Solomon 2:11
9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
10 My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
12 The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.
13 The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
- KJV
- For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
- WEB
- For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
- ASV
- For, lo, the winter is past; The rain is over and gone;
- DARBY
- For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over, it is gone:
- BLB
- For, behold, the winter has passed by; the rain has passed; it has gone itself.
- ÅB
- For se, nå er vinteren omme, regnet har draget forbi og er borte;
- OTB
- For se, vinteren er forbi, Regnet er over og borte.
- B1930
- For se, nu er vinteren omme, regnet har draget forbi og er borte;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 60:1–2
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
Read in contextEphesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Read in contextIsaiah 54:6–8
For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
Read in contextRevelation 11:14–15
The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming shortly.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
Read in contextIsaiah 40:2
“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
Read in contextMatthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
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