Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards. For our vineyards are in blossom.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Holman Bible
the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—
for our vineyards are in bloom.
International Standard Version
Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that destroy the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom."
American Standard Version
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, That spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom.
Amplified
(The Chorus)
“Catch the foxes for us,
The little foxes that spoil and ruin the vineyards [of love],
While our vineyards are in blossom.”
Bible in Basic English
Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.
Darby Translation
Take us the foxes, The little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in bloom.
Julia Smith Translation
Seize for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying the vineyards: and our vineyards are in blossom.
King James 2000
Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying vineyards, for our vineyards [are in] blossom!
Modern King James verseion
Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Get us the foxes, yea the little foxes that hurt the vines, for our vines bear blossoms.
NET Bible
The Beloved to Her Lover: Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes, that ruin the vineyards -- for our vineyard is in bloom.
New Heart English Bible
Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.
The Emphasized Bible
BOTHTake ye for us, the foxes, the little foxes that are spoiling the vines, - and, our vines, are all blossom!
Webster
Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
World English Bible
Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom. Beloved
Youngs Literal Translation
Seize ye for us foxes, Little foxes -- destroyers of vineyards, Even our sweet-smelling vineyards.
Themes
Flagon » Translated (av) flagon of wine, cake of raisin (rv)
Fox » Figurative » Of heretics
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 2:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Rendezvous In The Countryside
14 O my dove, who are in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the steep place, let me see thy countenance; let me hear thy voice. For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards. For our vineyards are in blossom. 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his. He feeds among the lilies.
Phrases
Cross References
Song of Songs 2:13
The fig tree ripens her green figs, and the vines are in blossom. They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Song of Songs 7:12
Let us get up early to the vineyards. Let us see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give thee my love.
Luke 13:32
And he said to them, Having gone, say to this fox, Behold, I cast out demons and finish cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I am fully perfected.
Psalm 80:13
The boar out of the wood ravages it, and the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
Ezekiel 13:4-16
O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
2 Peter 2:1-3
But FALSE prophets also developed among the people, as FALSE teachers will also be among you, who will sneak in pernicious denominations, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
Revelation 2:2
I know thy works, and thy toil, and thy perseverance, and that thou cannot tolerate evil, and thou examined those who say themselves to be apostles, and are not, and found them false.