Song of Solomon 2:17

15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
KJV
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
WEB
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
ASV
Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart Upon the mountains of Bether.
DARBY
Until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away. Turn, my beloved: be thou like a gazelle or a young hart, Upon the mountains of Bether.
BLB
Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, may you turn and be likened yourself, my beloved, to a gazelle or to a young stag of the deer, upon the mountains of Bether.
ÅB
Innen dagen blir sval og skyggene flykter, vend om, min elskede, lik et rådyr eller en ung hjort på de kløftede fjell!
OTB
Til dagen gryr og skyggene flyr, Vend tilbake, min elskede, og vær som en gaselle Eller en ung hjort på de ulendte fjellene.
B1930
Innen dagen blir sval og skyggene flyr, vend om, min elskede, lik et rådyr eller en ung hjort på de kløftede fjell!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Song of Solomon 4:6

    Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

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  • 2 Peter 1:19

    We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

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  • Romans 13:12

    The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

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  • Luke 1:78

    Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

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  • Hebrews 10:1

    For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

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  • Hebrews 8:5

    Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

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  • Song of Solomon 2:8–9

    The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

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  • Song of Solomon 8:14

    Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

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