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Song of Solomon 2:9

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My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

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KJV King James Version

My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

WEB World English Bible

My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

ASV American Standard Version

My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: Behold, he standeth behind our wall; He looketh in at the windows; He glanceth through the lattice.

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

My beloved is like to a roe, Or to a young one of the harts. Lo, this—he is standing behind our wall, Looking from the windows, Blooming from the lattice.

Surrounding context — Song of Solomon 2

6 His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please.

8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone;

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;

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Cross-references

Song of Solomon 8:14Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.Song of Solomon 2:17Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.Revelation 19:10And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See [thou do it] not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.2 Samuel 2:18And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel [was as] light of foot as a wild roe.John 5:39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.Hebrews 10:19-20Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,Hebrews 9:8-9The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:Ephesians 2:14-15For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us];John 5:46For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.Hebrews 10:1For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.1 Peter 1:10-12Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that should come] unto you:John 12:41These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.Luke 24:35And they told what things [were done] in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.2 Corinthians 3:13-18And not as Moses, [which] put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:1 Corinthians 13:12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.Colossians 2:17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.