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This is the time for singing; the song of doves is heard in the fields. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/songs/2-12.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/songs/2-12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/songs/2-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/songs/1.htm">Songs</a> > <a href="/gntd/songs/2.htm">Chapter 2</a> > Verse 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../songs/2-11.htm" title="Songs 2:11">◄</a> Songs 2:12 <a href="../songs/2-13.htm" title="Songs 2:13">►</a></div></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="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/songs/2.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/songs/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />in the countryside the flowers are in bloom. This is the time for singing; the song of doves is heard in the fields. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/songs/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/songs/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />flowers cover the earth, it's time to sing. The cooing of doves is heard in our land. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/songs/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The flowers appear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the song of the turtledove is heard in our land. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/songs/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle is heard in our land:<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle is heard in our land:</p><p class="hdg">flowers</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../songs/6-2.htm">Songs 6:2,11</a> My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/35-1.htm">Isaiah 35:1,2</a> The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/14-5.htm">Hosea 14:5-7</a> I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus. . . . </p><p class="hdg2">*</p><p class="hdg">time</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/40-1.htm">Psalm 40:1-3</a> Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. [2] With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/89-15.htm">Psalm 89:15</a> Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/148-7.htm">Psalm 148:7-13</a> Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all ye deeps: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/42-10.htm">Isaiah 42:10-12</a> Sing ye to the Lord a new song, his praise is from the ends of the earth: you that go down to the sea, and all that are therein: ye islands, and ye inhabitants of them. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/55-12.htm">Isaiah 55:12</a> For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall sing praise before you, and all the trees of the country shall clap their hands.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/5-18.htm">Ephesians 5:18-20</a> And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/3-16.htm">Colossians 3:16</a> Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.</p><p class="hdg">of the turtle</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/15-9.htm">Romans 15:9-13</a> But that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles and will sing to thy name. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/1-13.htm">Ephesians 1:13,14</a> In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation), in whom also believing, you were signed with the holy Spirit of promise. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/songs/2.htm">The Bride's Admiration</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl">The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle is heard in our land:</span><span class="reftext">13</span>The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower yield their sweet smell. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come:…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/15-9.htm">Genesis 15:9</a></span><br />And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years. and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/74-19.htm">Psalm 74:19</a></span><br />Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../songs/2-11.htm">Songs 2:11</a></span><br />For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/8-7.htm">Jeremiah 8:7</a></span><br />The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle, and the swallow, and the stork have observed the time of their coming: but my people have not known the judgment of the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ecclesiastes/9-7.htm">Already</a> <a href="/psalms/102-16.htm">Appear</a> <a href="/psalms/102-16.htm">Appeared</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-1.htm">Arrived</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-4.htm">Birds</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-9.htm">Cutting</a> <a href="/songs/1-15.htm">Dove</a> <a href="/songs/1-15.htm">Doves</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-7.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/job/15-33.htm">Flowers</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-13.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/micah/4-3.htm">Pruning</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-17.htm">Season</a> <a href="/proverbs/11-10.htm">Singing</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-1.htm">Sounding</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/11-1.htm">Time</a> <a href="/psalms/74-19.htm">Turtle</a> <a 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