Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
My beloved is mine, and I am his, Who is delighting among the lilies,
New American Standard Bible
He
King James Version
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Holman Bible
he feeds among the lilies.
International Standard Version
My beloved belongs to me and I belong to him. He is the one who shepherds his flock among the lilies.
A Conservative Version
My beloved is mine, and I am his. He feeds among the lilies.
American Standard Version
My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feedeth his flock among the lilies.
Amplified
(The Shulammite Bride)
“My beloved is mine and I am his;
He pastures his flock among the lilies.
Bible in Basic English
My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.
Darby Translation
My beloved is mine, and I am his; He feedeth his flock among the lilies,
Julia Smith Translation
My beloved to me, and I to him: he feeding among the lilies.
King James 2000
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feeds his flock among the lilies.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{My beloved belongs to me and I belong to him}; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
Modern King James verseion
My Beloved is mine, and I am His; He feeds among the lilies.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My love is mine, and I am his, which feedeth among the lilies,
NET Bible
The Beloved about Her Lover: My lover is mine and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.
New Heart English Bible
My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.
The Emphasized Bible
SHEMy beloved, is, mine, and, I, am, his, he that pastureth among lilies!
Webster
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
World English Bible
My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 2:16
Images Song of Solomon 2:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Poetic Refrain(S)
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, 17 Till the day doth break forth, And the shadows have fled away, Turn, be like, my beloved, To a roe, or to a young one of the harts, On the mountains of separation!
Cross References
Song of Songs 6:3
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine, Who is delighting himself among the lilies.
Song of Songs 7:10
I am my beloved's, and on me is his desire.
Song of Songs 4:5
Thy two breasts are as two fawns, Twins of a roe, that are feeding among lilies.
Psalm 48:14
That this God is our God -- To the age and for ever, He -- he doth lead us over death!
Psalm 63:1
A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou art my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.
Song of Songs 1:7
Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?
Song of Songs 2:1
As a lily among the thorns,
Song of Songs 7:13
The mandrakes have given fragrance, And at our openings all pleasant things, New, yea, old, my beloved, I laid up for thee!
Jeremiah 31:33
For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.
1 Corinthians 3:21-23
So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,
Galatians 2:20
with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
Revelation 21:2-3
and I, John, saw the holy city -- new Jerusalem -- coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;