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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Song of Solomon 2 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="../cmenus/songs/2.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="../topmenuchap/songs/2-1.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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Songs 2</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></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/songs/2-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Bride’s Admiration<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I am the flower of the plain, the lily of the valleys.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>As the lily between thorns, so is my friend between the daughters.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>As the apple among the trees of the forest, so my beloved between the sons. In his shadow I delighted, and I sat down, and his fruit was sweet to my palate.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He brought me to the house of wine, and his banner over me was love.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Sustain me with cakes, and refresh me with apples, for I am pierced of love.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>His left hand is under my head, and his right shall embrace me.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, if ye shall awake and if ye shall arouse love till he shall desire.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The voice of my beloved I behold him coming leaping upon the mountains, springing upon the hills.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My beloved is like to the roe or to the fawn of the hinds: behold him standing behind our wall looking forth from the windows, glancing from the lattices.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My beloved answered and said to me, Rise up for thyself, my friend, my beautiful one, and go for thyself.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For behold, the winter passed away, the rain glided away; it went for itself.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The flowers were seen in the earth; the time of pruning came, and the voice of the turtle-dove was heard in our land.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The fig tree ripened its unripe figs, and the vines are in blossom; they gave an odor. Rise up, my friend, my beautiful one, and go for thyself.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>My dove in the refuges of the rock, in the biding of the steep mountain: cause me to see thy form, cause me to hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet and thy form becoming.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Seize for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying the vineyards: and our vineyards are in blossom.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>My beloved to me, and I to him: he feeding among the lilies.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Until the day shall breathe and the shadows fled away, turn, thou, it being likened to thee, my beloved, to the roe, or to the fawn of the hind upon the mountains of section.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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