Song of Solomon 2:9
7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
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.
10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
11 For, lo, 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
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 2:17
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.
Read in contextEphesians 2:14–15
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Read in contextColossians 2:17
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Read in contextHebrews 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.
Read in contextJohn 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:13–18
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
Read in context2 Samuel 2:18
And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
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