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Song of Solomon 2:8-17

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”

— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

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, shewing 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 voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 13. The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines [with] the tender grape give a [good] smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. 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 Bether.

Song of Solomon 2:8-17 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Song of Solomon 2:8

Theological / Devotional

The voice of my beloved! Verses 8–17 seem to be the bride’s reminiscence of a delightful rendezvous in the springtime. The whole is probably spoken while she is in the loving embrace of her husband (see v. 6).

He cometh. The bride’s quick sense of love discerns a long way off the approach of her lover as he comes to her mountain home.

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