Song of Songs 2

My Beloved Is Mine, and I Am His

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2:1I am a flower of the plain, a lily of the valleys.

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

2:3Like an apple tree among the trees of the woodland, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shade and sat there; his fruit was sweet in my throat.

2:4Bring me into the house of wine; arrange love over me.

2:5Strengthen me with sweet cakes, heap apples about me, for I am wounded by love.

2:6His left hand is beneath my head, and his right hand will embrace me.

2:7I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the strengths of the field: do not awaken or stir up love until it wishes.

2:8The voice of my kinsman! Look, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.

2:9My kinsman is like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of Bethel. Look, he stands behind our wall, peering through the windows, looking out through the lattice.

2:10My kinsman answers and says to me: Rise, come, my companion, my beautiful one, my dove,

2:11for look, winter has passed; the rain has gone, departed,

2:12the blossoms have appeared in the land; the time of pruning has arrived; the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.

2:13The fig tree has brought forth its early figs; the vines are flowering and have given fragrance. Rise, come, my companion, my beautiful one, my dove,

2:14and come, my dove, in the shelter of the rock, close to the outer wall. Show me your appearance and let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet and your appearance lovely.

2:15Catch for us the little foxes that destroy vineyards, for our vines are flowering.

2:16My kinsman is mine, and I am his, he who pastures among the lilies,

2:17until the day breathes and the shadows move. Turn back, my kinsman; be like a gazelle or a young stag upon mountains of hollows.

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