Song of Solomon 2:9 “My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind o…”

Song of Solomon 2:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

My welbeloued is like a roe, or a yong hart: loe, he standeth behinde our wall, looking forth of the windowes, shewing him selfe through the grates.

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.

Young's 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.

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.

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Cross references

“like”

Song of Solomon 8:14 Song of Solomon 2:17

Song of Solomon 8:14 · BSB

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

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.

“he standeth”

1 Corinthians 13:12 2 Corinthians 3:13–18 Colossians 2:17 Hebrews 10:1 Ephesians 2:14 Ephesians 2:15

1 Corinthians 13:12 · BSB

Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

2 Corinthians 3:13–18 · BSB

We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.

Colossians 2:17 · BSB

These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

Hebrews 10:1 · BSB

For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

Ephesians 2:14 · BSB

For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

Ephesians 2:15 · BSB

by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

“shewing”

Luke 24:35 John 5:39 John 5:46 John 12:41 1 Peter 1:10–12 Revelation 19:10

Luke 24:35 · BSB

Then the two told what had happened on the road, and how they had recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread.

John 5:39 · BSB

You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

John 5:46 · BSB

If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

John 12:41 · BSB

Isaiah said these things because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about Him.

1 Peter 1:10–12 · BSB

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,

Revelation 19:10 · BSB

So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophec…

Also

2 Samuel 2:18

2 Samuel 2:18 · BSB

The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,

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

In context

8Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.

10My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.

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