Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes.

New American Standard Bible

Catch the foxes for us,
The little foxes that are ruining the vineyards,
While our vineyards are in blossom.”

King James Version

Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

Holman Bible

(W) Catch the foxes for us
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."

A Conservative Version

Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards. For our vineyards are in blossom.

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 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אחז 
'achaz 
Usage: 66

us the foxes
שׁעל שׁוּעל 
Shuw`al 
fox
Usage: 7

the little
קטן קטן 
Qatan 
Usage: 101

שׁעל שׁוּעל 
Shuw`al 
fox
Usage: 7

the vines
כּרם 
Kerem 
Usage: 93

כּרם 
Kerem 
Usage: 93

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Watsons

Fox

Verse Info

Context Readings

Rendezvous In The Countryside

14 O My dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let Me see your face, let Me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is beautiful. 15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes. 16 My Beloved is mine, and I am His; He feeds among the lilies.

Cross References

Song of Songs 2:13

the fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, My love, My beautiful one, and come away.

Song of Songs 7:12

Let us rise up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flowers, whether the tender grape appears, and the pomegranates bud forth; there I will give You my loves.

Luke 13:32

And He said to them, You go and tell that fox, Behold, today and tomorrow, I cast out demons and I complete cures, and the third day I will be finished.

Psalm 80:13

The boar out of the wood wastes it, and the wild beast of the field eats it.

Ezekiel 13:4-16

O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

2 Peter 2:1-3

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Revelation 2:2

I know your works and your labor and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil. And you tried those pretending to be apostles, and are not, and have found them liars.

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