Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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! lo, this -- he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills. 9 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. 10 My beloved hath answered and said to me, 'Rise up, my friend, my fair one, and come away,
Cross References
Song of Songs 8:14
Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!
Song of Songs 2:17
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!
2 Samuel 2:18
And there are there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel, and Asahel is light on his feet, as one of the roes which are in the field,
Luke 24:35
and they were telling the things in the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread,
John 5:39
'Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;
John 5:46
for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me;
John 12:41
these things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
1 Corinthians 13:12
for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;
2 Corinthians 3:13-18
and are not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,
Ephesians 2:14-15
for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,
Colossians 2:17
which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body is of the Christ;
Hebrews 9:8-9
the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy places, the first tabernacle having yet a standing;
Hebrews 10:1
For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,
Hebrews 10:19-20
Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,
1 Peter 1:10-12
concerning which salvation seek out and search out did prophets who concerning the grace toward you did prophecy,
Revelation 19:10
and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, 'See -- not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'