Parallel Verses

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.

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 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.

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 will I sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground. 2 This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns.

Cross References

Psalm 80:8

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Matthew 21:33

"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:

Mark 12:1

And he began to speak unto them in similitudes. "A certain man planted a vineyard, and compassed it with a hedge, and ordained a winepress, and built a tower in it, and let it out to hire unto husbandmen, and went into a strange country.

Luke 20:9

Then began he to put forth to the people this similitude, "A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to farmers, and went himself into a strange country for a great season.

Deuteronomy 31:19-22

Now, therefore, write ye this song, and teach it the children of Israel and put it in their mouths - that this song may be my witness unto the children of Israel.

Judges 5:1-31

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

Psalm 45:1

{To the Chanter, upon Shoshannim, an instruction of the children of Korah; a song of love} My heart is inditing of a good matter; I speak the things which I have made unto the King. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Psalm 101:1

{A Psalm of David} My song shall be of mercy and judgment, yea unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.

Song of Songs 2:16

My love is mine, and I am his, which feedeth among the lilies,

Song of Songs 5:2

As I was asleep, and my heart waking, I heard the voice of my beloved, when he knocked. Open to me, said he, O my sister, my love, my darling, my dove: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of my hair are full of the night drops.

Song of Songs 5:16

His throat is sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely. Such one is my love, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, such one is my love.

Song of Songs 6:3

My love is mine, and I am his, which feedeth among the lilies.

Song of Songs 8:11-12

Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; this vineyard delivered he unto the keepers, that every one for the fruit thereof should give him a thousand pieces of silver.

Isaiah 27:2-3

At the same time shall men sing of the vineyard of Muscatel.

Jeremiah 2:21

and among all green trees. Whereas I planted thee out of noble grapes and good roots. How art thou turned then into a bitter, unfruitful, and strange grape?

John 15:1

I am the true vine, and my father is a husbandman.

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