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Song of Solomon 2:9

My beloved [is] like to a roe, Or to a young one of the harts. Lo, this — he is standing behind our wall, Looking from the windows, Blooming from the lattice.

Young's Literal Translation

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

8The voice of my beloved! lo, this — he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

10My beloved hath answered and said to me, 'Rise up, my friend, my fair one, and come away,

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Cross References

Judges 5:28Through the window she hath looked out — Yea, she crieth out — the mother of Sisera, Through the lattice: Wherefore is his chariot delaying to come? Wherefore tarried have the steps of his chariot?

Proverbs 5:19A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

Song of Solomon 8:14Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!

John 5:39'Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

John 12:41these things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

2 Corinthians 3:13and [are] not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,

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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