Song of Solomon 2:9
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall. He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
10My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Cross References
Judges 5:28Through the window she looked forth, and cried--the mother of Sisera through the lattice--Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots delay?
Proverbs 5:19a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.
Song of Solomon 8:14Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
John 5:39Ye search the scriptures, because ye think to have eternal life in them, and those are testifying about me.
John 12:41Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke about him.
2 Corinthians 3:13and are not as Moses. He put a veil over his face in order for the sons of Israel not to gaze on the end of the fading.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 2:9-14
Mutual Love of Christ and the Church. 8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. 9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, showing 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; 12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the… Read the whole commentary →