Song of Solomon 2:11 See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.

English Standard Version
for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.

New American Standard Bible
For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone.

King James Bible
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For now the winter is past; the rain has ended and gone away.

International Standard Version
Look! Winter is past. The rain is over and gone.

American Standard Version
For, lo, the winter is past; The rain is over and gone;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone.

Darby Bible Translation
For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over, it is gone:

Young's Literal Translation
For lo, the winter hath passed by, The rain hath passed away -- it hath gone.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 2:10
My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Song of Solomon 2:12
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;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

2:8-13 The church pleases herself with thoughts of further communion with Christ. None besides can speak to the heart. She sees him come. This may be applied to the prospect the Old Testament saints had of Christ's coming in the flesh. He comes as pleased with his own undertaking. He comes speedily. Even when Christ seems to forsake, it is but for a moment; he will soon return with everlasting loving-kindness. The saints of old saw him, appearing through the sacrifices and ceremonial institutions. We see him through a glass darkly, as he manifests himself through the lattices. Christ invites the new convert to arise from sloth and despondency, and to leave sin and worldly vanities, for union and communion with him. The winter may mean years passed in ignorance and sin, unfruitful and miserable, or storms and tempests that accompanied his conviction of guilt and danger. Even the unripe fruits of holiness are pleasant unto Him whose grace has produced them. All these encouraging tokens and evidences of Divine favour, are motives to the soul to follow Christ more fully. Arise then, and come away from the world and the flesh, come into fellowship with Christ. This blessed change is owing wholly to the approaches and influences of the Sun of righteousness.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. the winter—the law of the covenant of works (Mt 4:16).

rain is over—(Heb 12:18-24; 1Jo 2:8). Then first the Gentile Church is called "beloved, which was not beloved" (Ro 9:25). So "the winter" of estrangement and sin is "past" to the believer (Isa 44:22; Jer 50:20; 2Co 5:17; Eph 2:1). The rising "Sun of righteousness" dispels the "rain" (2Sa 23:4; Ps 126:5; Mal 4:2). The winter in Palestine is past by April, but all the showers were not over till May. The time described here is that which comes directly after these last showers of winter. In the highest sense, the coming resurrection and deliverance of the earth from the past curse is here implied (Ro 8:19; Re 21:4; 22:3). No more "clouds" shall then "return after the rain" (Ec 12:2; Re 4:3; compare Ge 9:13-17); "the rainbow round the throne" is the "token" of this.