Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Seize ye for us foxes, Little foxes -- destroyers of vineyards, Even our sweet-smelling vineyards.

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 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

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 My dove, in clefts of the rock, In a secret place of the ascent, Cause me to see thine appearance, Cause me to hear thy voice, For thy voice is sweet, and thy appearance comely. 15 Seize ye for us foxes, Little foxes -- destroyers of vineyards, Even our sweet-smelling vineyards. 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his, Who is delighting among the lilies,

Cross References

Song of Songs 2:13

The fig-tree hath ripened her green figs, And the sweet-smelling vines have given forth fragrance, Rise, come, my friend, my fair one, yea, come away.

Song of Songs 7:12

We lodge in the villages, we go early to the vineyards, We see if the vine hath flourished, The sweet smelling-flower hath opened. The pomegranates have blossomed, There do I give to thee my loves;

Luke 13:32

and he said to them, 'Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am being perfected;

Psalm 80:13

A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it.

Ezekiel 13:4-16

As foxes in the wastes, Thy prophets, O Israel, have been.

2 Peter 2:1-3

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

Revelation 2:2

I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,

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