Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: Behold, he standeth behind our wall; He looketh in at the windows; He glanceth through the lattice.
New American Standard Bible
Behold, he is standing behind our wall,
He is looking through the windows,
He is peering
King James Version
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
Holman Bible
or a young stag.
Look, he is standing behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
peering through the lattice.
International Standard Version
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, looking through the windows, gazing through the lattice.
A Conservative Version
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall. He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
Amplified
“My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.
Behold, he is standing behind our wall,
He is looking through the windows,
He is gazing through the lattice.
Bible in Basic English
My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.
Darby Translation
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart. Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh in through the windows, Glancing through the lattice.
Julia Smith Translation
My beloved is like to the roe or to the fawn of the hinds: behold him standing behind our wall looking forth from the windows, glancing from the lattices.
King James 2000
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag: behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks forth through the windows, showing himself through the lattice.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My beloved is like a gazelle or {a young stag}. Look! {He is} standing behind our wall, gazing {through} the window, looking {through} the lattice.
Modern King James verseion
My Beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, He stands behind our wall, He looks forth at the windows, peering from the lattice.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My beloved is like a Roe or a young hart. Behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh in at the window, and peepeth through the grate.
NET Bible
My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the window, peering through the lattice.
New Heart English Bible
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall. He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
The Emphasized Bible
Resembleth, my beloved, a gazelle, or a young stag, - Lo! here he is, standing behind our wall, looking in at the windows, peeping in at the lattice.
Webster
My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.
World English Bible
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
Youngs Literal Translation
My beloved is like to a roe, Or to a young one of the harts. Lo, this -- he is standing behind our wall, Looking from the windows, Blooming from the lattice.
Themes
The Heart » Illustrative » Of Christ
The roe » Illustrative of » Christ
Walls » Illustrative » Of ordinances as a protection to the church
Interlinear
References
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Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Rendezvous In The Countryside
8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills. 9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: Behold, he standeth behind our wall; He looketh in at the windows; He glanceth through the lattice. 10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Cross References
Song of Songs 8:14
Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.
Song of Songs 2:17
Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart Upon the mountains of Bether.
2 Samuel 2:18
And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
Luke 24:35
And they rehearsed the things that happened in the way, and how he was known of them in the breaking of the bread.
John 5:39
Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;
John 5:46
For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me.
John 12:41
These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; and he spake of him.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
2 Corinthians 3:13-18
and are not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:
Ephesians 2:14-15
For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,
Colossians 2:17
which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
Hebrews 9:8-9
the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;
Hebrews 10:1
For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
Hebrews 10:19-20
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
1 Peter 1:10-12
Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that'should come unto you:
Revelation 19:10
And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus: worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.