Parallel Verses

King James Version

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

New American Standard Bible

Hurry, my beloved,
And be like a gazelle or a young stag
On the mountains of spices.”

Holman Bible

W Hurry to me, my love,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
on the mountains of spices.

International Standard Version

Come quickly, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

A Conservative Version

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

American Standard Version

Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.

Amplified

(The Shulammite Bride)
“Hurry, my beloved and come quickly,
Like a gazelle or a young stag [taking me home]
On the mountains of spices.”

Bible in Basic English

Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

Darby Translation

Haste, my beloved, And be thou like a gazelle or a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.

Julia Smith Translation

Flee, my beloved, and be it likened to thee to the roe or to the fawn of the hinds upon the mountains of spices.

King James 2000

Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Flee, my beloved! {Be like a gazelle} or {a young stag} upon {the perfumed mountains}!

Modern King James verseion

Hurry, my Beloved, and be like a gazelle, or a young deer, the stag, on the mountains of spices.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O get thee away, my love, as a roe or a young hart unto the sweet smelling mountains.

NET Bible

The Beloved to Her Lover: Make haste, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

New Heart English Bible

Come away, my beloved. Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

The Emphasized Bible

SHECome quickly, my beloved, and resemble thou a gazelle, or a young stag, upon the mountains of balsam-trees.

Webster

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

World English Bible

Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

Youngs Literal Translation

Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּרח 
Barach 
Usage: 64

my beloved
דּד דּוד 
Dowd 
Usage: 61

and be thou like
דּמה 
Damah 
Usage: 30

to a roe
צבי 
Ts@biy 
Usage: 32

or to a young
עפר 
`opher 
Usage: 5

איּל 
'ayal 
Usage: 11

הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Closing Words Of Mutual Love

13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it. 14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Cross References

Song of Songs 2:17

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Song of Songs 2:9

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.

Revelation 22:17

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

Revelation 22:20

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Song of Songs 4:6

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Luke 19:12

He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

Philippians 1:23

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

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