Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. My Beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

New American Standard Bible

Let me sing now for my well-beloved
A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard.
My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

King James Version

Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

Holman Bible

I will sing about the one I love,
a song about my loved one’s vineyard:
The one I love had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.

International Standard Version

I will sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: "The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

A Conservative Version

Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

American Standard Version

Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

Amplified

Now let me sing for my greatly Beloved [Lord]
A song of my Beloved about His vineyard (His chosen people).
My greatly Beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile slope (the promised land, Canaan).

Bible in Basic English

Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

Darby Translation

I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.

Julia Smith Translation

I will sing now to my beloved a song of my love for his vineyard. There was a vineyard to my beloved in the horn of the son of oil:

King James 2000

Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved regarding his vineyard. My well-beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill:

Lexham Expanded Bible

Let me sing for my beloved a song of my love concerning his vineyard: {My beloved had a vineyard} on {a fertile hill}.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Now will I sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground.

NET Bible

I will sing to my love -- a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

New Heart English Bible

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

The Emphasized Bible

Let me sing, I pray you, for a well-beloved of mine, The song of my beloved concerning his vineyard: - A vineyard, had my well-beloved on a very fruitful hill;

Webster

Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

World English Bible

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

Youngs Literal Translation

Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Now will I sing
שׁוּר שׁירo 
Shiyr 
Usage: 86

to my wellbeloved
ידיד 
Y@diyd 
Usage: 10

a song
שׁירה שׁיר 
Shiyr 
Usage: 90

of my beloved
דּד דּוד 
Dowd 
Usage: 61

כּרם 
Kerem 
Usage: 93

ידיד 
Y@diyd 
Usage: 10

כּרם 
Kerem 
Usage: 93

Context Readings

The Song Of The Vineyard

1 Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. My Beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. 2 And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes. And it produced wild grapes.


Cross References

Psalm 80:8

You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations and planted it.

Matthew 21:33

Hear another parable. There was a certain housemaster who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went into a far country.

Mark 12:1

And He began to speak to them by parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a fence about it, and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and he let it out to vinedressers, and went away.

Luke 20:9

And He began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to vinedressers. And he went into a far country for a long time.

Deuteronomy 31:19-22

Now, therefore, write this song for you, and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.

Judges 5:1-31

Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

Psalm 45:1

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies, for the sons of Korah, a contemplation; A Song of Loves. My heart is overflowing with a good matter; I speak of my works to the King; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Psalm 101:1

A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and judgment; to You, O Jehovah, I will sing praise.

Song of Songs 2:16

My Beloved is mine, and I am His; He feeds among the lilies.

Song of Songs 5:2

I sleep, but my heart is awake. It is the sound of my Beloved that knocks, saying, Open to Me, My sister, My love, My dove, My undefiled; for My head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.

Song of Songs 5:16

His mouth is most sweet; yes, He is altogether lovely. This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Songs 6:3

I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine; He feeds among the lilies.

Song of Songs 8:11-12

Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; everyone for its fruit was to bring a thousand of silver.

Isaiah 27:2-3

In that day sing to her, a delightful vineyard.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you a noble vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?

John 15:1

I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.

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