2:1 I [am] the rose of Sharon, [and] the lily of the valleys.
2:2 As the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the
daughters.
2:3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my
beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great
delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste.
2:4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over
me [was] love.
2:5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I [am]
sick with love.
2:6 His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth
embrace me.
2:7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and
by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not, nor awake [my]
love, till he please.
2:8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the
mountains, skipping upon the hills.
2:9 My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart: behold, he
standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows,
showing himself through the lattice.
2:10 My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise, my love, my fair
one, and come away.
2:11 For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone.
2:12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing
[of birds] is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our
land;
2:13 The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines
[with] the tender grape give a [good] smell. Arise, my love, my
fair one, and come away.
2:14 O my dove, [that art] in the clefts of the rock, in the
secret [places] of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let
me hear thy voice; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy
countenance [is] comely.
2:15 Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the
vines: for our vines [have] tender grapes.
2:16 My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his: he feedeth among the
lilies.
2:17 Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away, turn,
my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the
mountains of Bether.
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