Song of Solomon 2:1-13 ▼

1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

2 Like a lily among the thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons; in his shade I have delighted and sat down, and his fruit is sweet to my palate.

4 He has brought me to the house of wine, and his banner over me was love.

5 Sustain me with raisin-cakes, refresh me with apples—for I am sick with love.

6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

7 I adjure you?, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field—do not arouse or awaken love, until it pleases.

8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, this one is coming, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.

9 My beloved is being like to a gazelle, or to a young stag of the deer. Behold, this one is standing behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattices.

10 My beloved answered and said to me, “Rise up, my my darling, my beautiful one, come away yourself!

11 For, behold, the winter has passed by; the rain has passed; it has gone itself.

12 The blossoms have appeared in the land, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land;

13 the fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines in blossom have given forth the fragrance. Arise, come my darling, my beautiful one, and come away yourself!”