Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Listen! My beloved!
Behold, he is coming,
Climbing on the mountains,
Leaping on the hills!

King James Version

The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

Holman Bible

Listen! My love is approaching.
Look! Here he comes,
leaping over the mountains,
bounding over the hills.

International Standard Version

The voice of my beloved! Look! He's coming, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.

A Conservative Version

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

American Standard Version

The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills.

Amplified

(The Shulammite Bride)
“Listen! My beloved!
Behold, he comes,
Climbing on the mountains,
Leaping and running on the hills!

Bible in Basic English

The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.

Darby Translation

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he cometh Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills.

Julia Smith Translation

The voice of my beloved I behold him coming leaping upon the mountains, springing upon the hills

King James 2000

The voice of my beloved! behold, he comes leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The voice of my beloved! Look! Here {he} comes leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills!

Modern King James verseion

The voice of my Beloved! Behold, He comes leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Me think I hear the voice of my beloved: lo, there cometh he hopping upon the mountains, and leaping over the little hills.

NET Bible

The Beloved about Her Lover: Listen! My lover is approaching! Look! Here he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills!

New Heart English Bible

The voice of my beloved. Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

The Emphasized Bible

SHEThe voice of my beloved! Lo! here he cometh, - leaping over the mountains, skipping over the hills.

Webster

The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

World English Bible

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

Youngs Literal Translation

The voice of my beloved! lo, this -- he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קל קול 
Qowl 
Usage: 506

of my beloved
דּד דּוד 
Dowd 
Usage: 61


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

דּלג 
Dalag 
Usage: 5

הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

קפץ 
Qaphats 
shut, stop, shut up, take out of the way, skip
Usage: 7

References

Images Song of Solomon 2:8

Prayers for Song of Solomon 2:8

Verse Info

Context Readings

Rendezvous In The Countryside

7 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. 8 Listen! My beloved!
Behold, he is coming,
Climbing on the mountains,
Leaping on the hills!
9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice.

Cross References

2 Samuel 6:16

As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

Song of Songs 2:17

Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains.

Song of Songs 5:2

I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night."

Isaiah 35:6

then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;

Isaiah 40:3-4

A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Isaiah 44:23

Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.

Isaiah 49:11-13

And I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be raised up.

Isaiah 52:7

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."

Isaiah 55:12-13

"For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Jeremiah 48:27

Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?

Luke 3:4-6

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Luke 6:23

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.

John 3:29

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

John 10:4-5

When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

John 10:27

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Acts 3:8

And leaping up he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

Acts 14:10

said in a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet." And he sprang up and began walking.

Revelation 3:20

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

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