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Song of Solomon 2:9

My beloved is like a doe and like a young stag.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

8Bride to Chorus: The voice of my beloved! Behold, he arrives leaping along the mountains, jumping across the hills.

10Lo, he stands beyond our wall, gazing through the windows, watching through the lattices.

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Cross References

Judges 5:28His mother gazed through a window and wailed. And she spoke from an upper room: ‘Why does his chariot delay in returning? Why are the feet of his team of horses so slow?’

Proverbs 5:19a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.

Song of Solomon 8:14Bride to Groom: Your friends are attentive to those who have been dwelling in the gardens. Cause me to heed your voice. Flee away, my beloved, and become like the doe and the young stag upon the mountains of aromatic plants.

John 5:39Study the Scriptures. For you think that in them you have eternal life. And yet they also offer testimony about me.

John 12:41These things Isaiah said, when he saw his glory and was speaking about him.

2 Corinthians 3:13and not as Moses did, in placing a veil over his face, so that the sons of Israel would not gaze intently at his face. This was ineffective,

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 →

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