Song of Solomon 2:8
The voice of my friend! behold, there he cometh, leaping over the mountains, skipping over the hills.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:16And it happened, as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.
Song of Solomon 5:2I slept, but my heart was awake: [there was] the voice of my beloved that knocked, “Open for me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my guiltless one; for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.”
Isaiah 40:3A voice calleth out, In the wilderness make ye clear the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for God.
Isaiah 49:11And I will change all my mountains into a road, and my highways shall be lifted up.
Isaiah 55:12For in joy shall ye go out, and in peace shall ye be brought home: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 2:4-8
The Love of the Church to Christ. 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. 4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. 5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. 7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir… Read the whole commentary →