Song of Songs · Free Bible Version
Song of Songs 2 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 I'm just a flower from the plain of Sharon, a lily found in the valleys.
1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
2 Just as a lily stands out among the brambles, so you, my darling, stand out among other women.
2 As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
3 My love is like an apple tree among the forest trees, compared to other young men. I love to sit down in his shade and his fruit tastes sweet to me.
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, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
4 He took me to drink of his wine, wanting to show his love for me.
4 He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.
5 Feed me raisins to give me energy, give me apples to revive me, for love has made me weak!
5 Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love.
6 He supports my head with his left hand, and holds me close with his right.
6 His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.
7 Women of Jerusalem, swear to me by the gazelles or the wild deer that you won't disturb our love until the right time.
7 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
8 Listen! I hear the voice of my love! Look! Here he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping over the hills—
8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.
9 my love is like a gazelle or a young deer! Look, he's there, standing behind our wall, looking through the window, peering through the screen.
9 My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
10 My love calls out to me, “Get up, my darling, my beautiful girl, and come away with me! Just look!
10 My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
11 Winter has finished; the rains are over and gone.
11 For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
12 Flowers are blooming everywhere; the time when birds sing has come; the call of the turtledove is heard in the countryside.
12 The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
13 Fig trees start producing ripe fruit, while grape vines blossom, giving off their fragrance. Get up, my darling, my beautiful girl, and come away with me!”
13 The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.”
14 My dove is out of sight in the crevices of the rock, in the hiding places of the cliff. Please let me see you! Let me hear you! For you speak so sweetly, and you look so beautiful!
14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
15 Catch the foxes for us, all the little foxes that come and destroy the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom!
15 Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.
16 My love is mine, and I am his! He feeds among the lilies,
16 My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.
17 until the morning breezes blow and the shadows disappear. Come back to me, my love, and be like a gazelle or a young deer on the split mountains.
17 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on 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 Hosea 14:5; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 35:1–2; Song of Songs 5:13; Song of Songs 6:3
- 2 1 Peter 2:12; Isaiah 55:13; Philippians 2:15–16; Matthew 6:28–29; Matthew 10:16
- 3 Song of Songs 8:5; Isaiah 32:2; Isaiah 25:4; Hebrews 1:1–6; Hebrews 12:2
- 4 Romans 8:28–39; John 15:9–15; Romans 5:8–10; Song of Songs 1:4; Revelation 3:20
- 5 Song of Songs 5:8; Hosea 3:1; 2 Samuel 6:19; Psalm 42:1–2; Luke 24:32
- 6 Isaiah 54:5–10; Zephaniah 3:17; Jeremiah 32:41; Song of Songs 8:3–5; John 3:29
- 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 John 10:27; Isaiah 52:7; Song of Songs 2:17; John 3:29; Revelation 3:20
- 9 Song of Songs 8:14; Song of Songs 2:17; Ephesians 2:14–15; Colossians 2:17; Hebrews 10:1
- 10 Song of Songs 2:13; Song of Songs 4:7–8; Revelation 22:17; Psalm 45:10–11; 2 Corinthians 11:2
- 11 Isaiah 60:1–2; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Ephesians 5:8; Isaiah 54:6–8; Revelation 11:14–15
- 12 Isaiah 55:12; Psalm 89:15; Psalm 148:7–13; Jeremiah 8:7; Colossians 3:16
- 13 Song of Songs 2:10; Isaiah 55:10–11; Isaiah 61:11; Luke 13:6–7; 2 Corinthians 6:1–2
- 14 Ezra 9:5–6; Song of Songs 1:5; Song of Songs 5:2; Exodus 3:6; Song of Songs 8:13
- 15 Luke 13:32; 2 Peter 2:1–3; Song of Songs 7:12; Psalm 80:13; Ezekiel 13:4–16
- 16 Song of Songs 6:3; Song of Songs 7:10; Psalm 63:1; Psalm 48:14; Jeremiah 31:33
- 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).
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“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).
… 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)
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)
… 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)
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)