Song of Solomon 2:9
7 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
8 Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
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.
11 For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
- KJV
- My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
- WEB
- My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
- ASV
- My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: Behold, he standeth behind our wall; He looketh in at the windows; He glanceth through the lattice.
- DARBY
- My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart. Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh in through the windows, Glancing through the lattice.
- BLB
- My beloved [is] being like to a gazelle, or to a young stag of the deer. Behold, this one is standing behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattices.
- ÅB
- Min elskede ligner et rådyr eller en ung hjort. Se, der står han bak vår vegg; han kikker gjennom vinduene, gjennom gitteret ser han inn.
- OTB
- Min elskede ligner en gaselle eller en ung hjort. Se, han står bak vår vegg, Han ser ut gjennom vinduene, Han kikker gjennom gitteret.
- B1930
- Min elskede ligner et rådyr eller en ung hjort. Se, der står han bak vår vegg; han kikker gjennem vinduene, gjennem gitteret ser han inn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Song of Solomon 8:14
Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
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Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
Read in contextEphesians 2:14–15
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Read in context2 Corinthians 3:13–18
We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
Read in context2 Samuel 2:18
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,
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