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SNG 2:1–2:17 ©

The Song of Songs 2

The woman speaking to her lover

2I am like an insignificant flower on the plains,

like an insignificant lily growing in the valleys.

The

2Among all the other young women,

you, my dear one, are like a lily growing among thorns!

The

3Compared to other men, you, the one who I love; are like an apple tree that produces delicious fruit and grows in the forest among common trees.

You are like a tree whose shadow protects me from the sun,

and your being close to me is delightful like eating sweet fruit.

4I want you to lead me to the place where we can make love,

and it is evident that you love me very much.

The

5Strengthen and refresh me with fruit,

because the way you love me makes me feel lovesick.

The

6The man I love has placed his left arm under my head

and he holds me close with his right arm.

The

7You young women of Jerusalem,

I want you to solemnly promise me, while the female gazelles and female deer are listening,

that you will not cause people to love romantically

until it is the right time.

The

8Listen! Look! The man who I love is coming.

It is as though he is leaping over the mountains

and skipping over the hills

9like a gazelle or a young male deer.

Look! There he is! He is standing outside the wall of our house,

peering in through the window,

and looking intently through the wooden strips inside the window frame.

10The man who I love spoke to me and said,

“My dear one, get up;

my beautiful one, come with me!

11Look, the cold season has ended;

the rain has stopped.

12The flowers are blooming throughout the country.

It is now time to sing;

we hear the doves cooing throughout our land.

13There are new figs on the fig trees,

and there are blossoms on the grapevines

and their fragrance fills the air.

My dear one, get up;

my beautiful one, come with me!

14You are like a dove that is hiding far from me in an opening in the rocky cliff.

Allow me to see your form,

and allow me to hear your voice,

because your voice sounds sweet,

and your form is comely.”

The

15There are harmful things that are like little foxes that ruin vineyards;

do not allow these things to ruin our growing relationship.

16You who I love, you are mine, and I am yours.

You have pleasure when you kiss my lips,

as a gazelle does when eating among the lilies.

17You whom I love, come and be like a gazelle or a young male deer on the mountains in Bether,

until the evening breeze blows and the sun sets.

SNG 2:1–2:17 ©

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