Song of Solomon 2:16
My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his, Who is delighting among the lilies,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
In Context
15Seize ye for us foxes, Little foxes — destroyers of vineyards, Even our sweet-smelling vineyards.
Cross References
Psalms 48:14That this God [is] our God — To the age and for ever, He — he doth lead us over death!
Song of Solomon 1:7Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?
Song of Solomon 4:5Thy two breasts [are] as two fawns, Twins of a roe, that are feeding among lilies.
Song of Solomon 7:10I [am] my beloved's, and on me [is] his desire.
Song of Solomon 7:13The mandrakes have given fragrance, And at our openings all pleasant things, New, yea, old, my beloved, I laid up for thee!
Zechariah 13:9And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it [is],' And it saith, 'Jehovah [is] my God!'
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 →