Song of Solomon 2:9
My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
8The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills.
10Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come.
Cross References
Judges 5:28His mother looked out at a window, and howled: and she spoke from the dining room: Why is his chariot so long in coming back? Why are the feet of his horses so slow?
Proverbs 5:19Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted continually with her love.
Song of Solomon 8:14Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.
John 5:39Search the scriptures, for you think in them to have life everlasting; and the same are they that give testimony of me.
John 12:41These things said Isaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
2 Corinthians 3:13And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made void.
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 →