Song of Solomon 2:16
My beloved is mine, and I am his. He feeds among the lilies.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
In Context
15Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards. For our vineyards are in blossom.
Cross References
Psalms 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide [even] to death.
Song of Solomon 1:7Tell me, O thou whom my soul loves, where thou feed [thy flock], where thou make [it] to rest at noon. For why should I be as she who is veiled beside the flocks of thy companions?
Song of Solomon 4:5Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 7:10I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
Song of Solomon 7:13The mandrakes give forth fragrance. And at our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Zechariah 13:9And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD i
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 2:15-17
The Love of the Church to Christ. 14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 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. 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… Read the whole commentary →