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I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let him lead me to the banquet hall, and let his banner over me be love.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Listen! My beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My beloved spoke and said to me, "Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the crannies of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My beloved is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href="//niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="//biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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