Song of Solomon 2:8 “Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the…”

Song of Solomon 2:8

Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

World English Bible

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

American Standard Version

The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills.

Geneva Bible 1599

It is the voyce of my welbeloued: beholde, hee commeth leaping by the mountaines, and skipping by the hilles.

Darby Translation

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he cometh Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills.

Young's Literal Translation

The voice of my beloved! lo, this — he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

Bible in Basic English

The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.

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Cross references

“voice”

John 10:27 John 3:29 Revelation 3:20 Song of Solomon 5:2 John 10:4 John 10:5

John 10:27 · BSB

My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

John 3:29 · BSB

The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.

Revelation 3:20 · BSB

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.

Song of Solomon 5:2 · BSB

I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

John 10:4 · BSB

When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.

John 10:5 · BSB

But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will flee from him because they do not recognize his voice.”

“leaping”

2 Samuel 6:16 Isaiah 35:6 Jeremiah 48:27 Acts 3:8 Acts 14:10 Luke 6:23

2 Samuel 6:16 · BSB

As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

Isaiah 35:6 · BSB

Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Jeremiah 48:27 · BSB

Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

Acts 3:8 · BSB

He sprang to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and leaping and praising God.

Acts 14:10 · BSB

In a loud voice Paul called out, “Stand up on your feet!” And the man jumped up and began to walk.

Luke 6:23 · BSB

Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.

“the mountains”

Isaiah 44:23 Isaiah 49:11–13 Luke 3:4–6 Isaiah 40:3 Isaiah 40:4 Isaiah 55:12

Isaiah 44:23 · BSB

Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel…

Isaiah 49:11–13 · BSB

I will turn all My mountains into roads, and My highways will be raised up.

Luke 3:4–6 · BSB

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.

Isaiah 40:3 · BSB

A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

Isaiah 40:4 · BSB

Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.

Isaiah 55:12 · BSB

You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

Also

Song of Solomon 2:17 Isaiah 52:7

Song of Solomon 2:17 · BSB

Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.

Isaiah 52:7 · BSB

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

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