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href="../songs/1.htm" title="Song of Solomon 1">◄</a> Song of Solomon 2 <a href="../songs/3.htm" title="Song of Solomon 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/songs/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I am the spring crocus blooming on the Sharon Plain,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line2">the lily of the valley.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Man</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Like a lily among thistles</p><p class="line2">is my darling among young women.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Like the finest apple tree in the orchard</p><p class="line2">is my lover among other young men.</p><p class="line1">I sit in his delightful shade</p><p class="line2">and taste his delicious fruit.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He escorts me to the banquet hall;</p><p class="line2">it’s obvious how much he loves me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Strengthen me with raisin cakes,</p><p class="line2">refresh me with apples,</p><p class="line2">for I am weak with love.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>His left arm is under my head,</p><p class="line2">and his right arm embraces me.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Promise me, O women of Jerusalem,</p><p class="line2">by the gazelles and wild deer,</p><p class="line2">not to awaken love until the time is right.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Ah, I hear my lover coming!</p><p class="line2">He is leaping over the mountains,</p><p class="line2">bounding over the hills.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My lover is like a swift gazelle</p><p class="line2">or a young stag.</p><p class="line1">Look, there he is behind the wall,</p><p class="line2">looking through the window,</p><p class="line2">peering into the room.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My lover said to me,</p><p class="line2">“Rise up, my darling!</p><p class="line2">Come away with me, my fair one!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Look, the winter is past,</p><p class="line2">and the rains are over and gone.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The flowers are springing up,</p><p class="line2">the season of singing birds<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> has come,</p><p class="line2">and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The fig trees are forming young fruit,</p><p class="line2">and the fragrant grapevines are blossoming.</p><p class="line1">Rise up, my darling!</p><p class="line2">Come away with me, my fair one!”</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Man</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>My dove is hiding behind the rocks,</p><p class="line2">behind an outcrop on the cliff.</p><p class="line1">Let me see your face;</p><p class="line2">let me hear your voice.</p><p class="line1">For your voice is pleasant,</p><p class="line2">and your face is lovely.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Women of Jerusalem</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Catch all the foxes,</p><p class="line2">those little foxes,</p><p class="line1">before they ruin the vineyard of love,</p><p class="line2">for the grapevines are blossoming!</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>My lover is mine, and I am his.</p><p class="line2">He browses among the lilies.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Before the dawn breezes blow</p><p class="line2">and the night shadows flee,</p><p class="line1">return to me, my love, like a gazelle</p><p class="line2">or a young stag on the rugged mountains.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally rendered </span><span class="it">I am the rose of Sharon.</span><span class="ft"> Sharon Plain is a region in the coastal plain of Palestine.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">not to awaken love until it is ready.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">2:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the season of pruning vines.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">on the hills of Bether.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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