Song of Solomon 8:14 Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.

English Standard Version
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

New American Standard Bible
"Hurry, my beloved, And be like a gazelle or a young stag On the mountains of spices."

King James Bible
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Hurry to me, my love, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

International Standard Version
Come quickly, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

American Standard Version
Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.

Darby Bible Translation
Haste, my beloved, And be thou like a gazelle or a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.

Young's Literal Translation
Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!

Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:15
Notwithstanding you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatever your soul lusts after, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

Song of Solomon 2:7
I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that you stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Song of Solomon 2:9
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.

Song of Solomon 4:6
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:13,14 These verses close the conference between Christ and his church. He first addresses her as dwelling in the gardens, the assemblies and ordinances of his saints. He exhorts her to be constant and frequent in prayers, supplications, and praises, in which he delights. She replies, craving his speedy return to take her to be wholly with Him. The heavens, those high mountains of sweet spices, must contain Christ, till the times come, when every eye shall see him, in all the glory of the better world. True believers as they are looking for, so they are hastening to the coming of that day of the Lord. Let every Christian endeavour to perform the duties of his station, that men may see his good works, and glorify his heavenly Father. Continuing earnest in prayer for what we want, our thanksgivings will abound, and our joy will be full; our souls will be enriched, and our labours prospered. We shall be enabled to look forward to death and judgment without fear. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. (See on [685]So 2:17). As she began with longing for His first coming (So 1:2), so she ends with praying for His second coming (Ps 130:6; Php 3:20, 21; Re 22:20). Moody Stuart makes the roe upon spices to be the musk deer. As there are four gardens, so four mountains, which form not mere images, as Gilead, Carmel, &c., but part of the structure of the Song: (1) Bether, or division (So 2:17), God's justice dividing us from God. (2) Those "of leopards" (So 4:8), sin, the world, and Satan. (3) That "of myrrh and aloes" (So 4:6, 14), the sepulchre of Calvary. (4) Those "of spices," here answering to "the hill of frankincense" (So 4:6), where His soul was for the three days of His death, and heaven, where He is a High Priest now, offering incense for us on the fragrant mountain of His own finished work (Heb 4:14, 7:25; Re 8:3, 4); thus He surmounts the other three mountains, God's justice, our sin, death. The mountain of spices is as much greater than our sins, as heaven is higher than earth (Ps 103:11). The abrupt, unsatisfied close with the yearning prayer for His visible coming shows that the marriage is future, and that to wait eagerly for it is our true attitude (1Co 1:7; 1Th 1:10; Tit 2:13; 2Pe 3:12).