Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
American
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 forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice. 10 My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Cross References
Song of Songs 8:14
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Song of Songs 2:17
Until the day shall break, 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 there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
Luke 24:35
And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known to them in breaking of bread.
John 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
John 5:46
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote concerning me.
John 12:41
These things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
2 Corinthians 3:13-18
And not as Moses, who put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
Ephesians 2:14-15
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Colossians 2:17
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Hebrews 9:8-9
The Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Hebrews 10:1
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers to them perfect.
Hebrews 10:19-20
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
1 Peter 1:10-12
Concerning which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come to you:
Revelation 19:10
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.