Song of Songs 2:8-15 - Rendezvous In The Countryside

⁸ (The Shulammite Bride)
“Listen! My beloved!
Behold, he comes,
Climbing on the mountains,
Leaping and running on the hills!
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“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. ¹⁰
“My beloved speaks and says to me,
‘Arise, my love, my fair one,
And come away.
¹¹
‘For behold, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.
¹²
‘The flowers appear on the earth once again;
The time for singing has come,
And the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
¹³
‘The fig tree has budded and ripens her figs,
And the vines are in blossom and give forth their fragrance.
Arise, my love, my fair one,
And come away [to climb the rocky steps of the hillside].’”

¹⁴ (The Bridegroom)
“O my dove, [here] in the clefts in the rock,
In the sheltered and secret place of the steep pathway,
Let me see your face,
Let me hear your voice;
For your voice is sweet,
And your face is lovely.”

¹⁵ (The Chorus)
“Catch the foxes for us,
The little foxes that spoil and ruin the vineyards [of love],
While our vineyards are in blossom.”

¹¹
“Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country,
Let us spend the night in the villages.
¹²
“Let us go out early to the vineyards;
Let us see whether the vine has budded
And its blossoms have opened,
And whether the pomegranates have flowered.
There I will give you my love.
¹³
“The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
And over our doors are all [kinds of] choice fruits,
Both new and old,
Which I have saved up for you, my beloved.