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

⁸ The voice of my beloved! Look! Here {he} comes leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills! ⁹ 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. ¹⁰ My beloved answered and said to me, "{Arise}, my beloved! {Come, my beauty}! ¹¹ For look! The winter is over; {the rainy season} {has turned and gone away}. ¹² The blossoms {appear} {in the land}; {the time of singing has arrived}; the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. ¹³ The fig tree puts forth her figs, and the vines [are in] blossom; they give fragrance. {Arise}, my beloved! {Come, my beauty}!"

¹⁴ My dove, in the clefts of the rock, {in the secluded place} {in the mountain}, Let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice [is] sweet and your face [is] lovely.

¹⁵ Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying vineyards, for our vineyards [are in] blossom!

¹¹ Come, my beloved, let us {go out to the countryside}; let us spend the night in the villages. ¹² Let us rise early [to go] to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has budded, [whether] the grape blossom has opened, and [whether] the pomegranates {are in bloom}; there I will give my love to you. ¹³ The mandrakes give [off their] fragrance, and {over our doorway is every kind of delicious fruit}; both {fresh and dried fruit I have stored up} for you, O my beloved.