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Song of Songs 2 Catholic Public Domain Version

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Notes on this text (3)

1 Bride: I am a flower of the open field and a lily of the steep valleys. 2 Groom: Like a lily among the thorns, so is my loved one among the daughters. 3 Bride to Chorus: Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat beneath the shadow of the one whom I desired, and his fruit was sweet to my palate. 4 He brought me into the storeroom of wine. He set charity in order within me. 5 Prop me up with flowers. Close me in with apples. For I languish through love. 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me. 7 Groom to Chorus: I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the does and the stags of the open field, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, even for as long as she wills. 8 Bride to Chorus: The voice of my beloved! Behold, he arrives leaping along the mountains, jumping across the hills. 9 My beloved is like a doe and like a young stag. 10 Lo, he stands beyond our wall, gazing through the windows, watching through the lattices. 11 Lo, my beloved speaks to me: 12 Groom to Bride: Rise up, quickly, my love, my dove, my shapely one, and advance. 13 For winter has now past; the rain has decreased and gone away. 14 The flowers have appeared in our land; the time for pruning has arrived. The voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land. 15 The fig tree has brought forth its green figs; the flowering vines bestow their odor. Rise up, my love, my brilliant one, and advance. 16 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollows of the wall, reveal to me your face. Let your voice sound in my ears. For your voice is sweet, and your face is graceful. 17 Chorus to Groom and Bride: Capture for us the little foxes, which are tearing down the vines; for our vineyard has flourished. Bride to Chorus: My beloved is for me, and I am for him. He pastures among the lilies, until the day rises and the shadows decline. Bride to Groom: Return, O my beloved. Be like a doe and like a young stag upon the mountains of Bether.

Cross references (17)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Hosea 14:5; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 35:1–2; Song of Songs 5:13; Song of Songs 6:3
  2. 2 1 Peter 2:12; Isaiah 55:13; Philippians 2:15–16; Matthew 6:28–29; Matthew 10:16
  3. 3 Song of Songs 8:5; Isaiah 32:2; Isaiah 25:4; Hebrews 1:1–6; Hebrews 12:2
  4. 4 Romans 8:28–39; John 15:9–15; Romans 5:8–10; Song of Songs 1:4; Revelation 3:20
  5. 5 Song of Songs 5:8; Hosea 3:1; 2 Samuel 6:19; Psalm 42:1–2; Luke 24:32
  6. 6 Isaiah 54:5–10; Zephaniah 3:17; Jeremiah 32:41; Song of Songs 8:3–5; John 3:29
  7. 7 Song of Songs 3:5; Song of Songs 8:4; Song of Songs 1:5; Song of Songs 5:8–9; Proverbs 5:19
  8. 8 John 10:27; Isaiah 52:7; Song of Songs 2:17; John 3:29; Revelation 3:20
  9. 9 Song of Songs 8:14; Song of Songs 2:17; Ephesians 2:14–15; Colossians 2:17; Hebrews 10:1
  10. 10 Song of Songs 2:13; Song of Songs 4:7–8; Revelation 22:17; Psalm 45:10–11; 2 Corinthians 11:2
  11. 11 Isaiah 60:1–2; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Ephesians 5:8; Isaiah 54:6–8; Revelation 11:14–15
  12. 12 Isaiah 55:12; Psalm 89:15; Psalm 148:7–13; Jeremiah 8:7; Colossians 3:16
  13. 13 Song of Songs 2:10; Isaiah 55:10–11; Isaiah 61:11; Luke 13:6–7; 2 Corinthians 6:1–2
  14. 14 Ezra 9:5–6; Song of Songs 1:5; Song of Songs 5:2; Exodus 3:6; Song of Songs 8:13
  15. 15 Luke 13:32; 2 Peter 2:1–3; Song of Songs 7:12; Psalm 80:13; Ezekiel 13:4–16
  16. 16 Song of Songs 6:3; Song of Songs 7:10; Psalm 63:1; Psalm 48:14; Jeremiah 31:33
  17. 17 Song of Songs 4:6; 2 Peter 1:19; Romans 13:12; Luke 1:78; Hebrews 10:1

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 2:17 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters XII–XV)

    … mother of the wicked,--until the anger of the Lord be overpast, whereof we also were once children who were sometimes darkness, the remains whereof we carry about us in our body, dead on account of sin, "until the day break and the shadows flee away." "Hope thou in the Lord." In the morning I shall stand in Thy presence, and …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  2. Quotes verse 2:11 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIV)

    In the same Canticles immediately before the words quoted He says, The winter is past, the rain is past and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the pruning is come.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  3. Quotes verse 2:9 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters XII–XV)

    … us in the dark image of the clouds, and through the glass of the heavens, not as it is; because we also, although we be the well-beloved of Thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looketh through the lattice of our flesh, and He is fair-speaking, and hath inflamed us, and we run after …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  4. Quotes verse 2:4 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm VII)

    For by what other arrows was she stricken, who saith, "Bring me into the house of wine, place me among perfumes, crowd me among honey, for I have been wounded with love"? By what other arrows is he kindled, who, desirous of returning to God, and coming back from wandering, asketh for help against crafty tongues, and to whom it …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)