Song of Solomon 8:5 “Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? The…”

Song of Solomon 8:5

Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? The Bride I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

World English Bible

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Beloved Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

American Standard Version

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I awakened thee: There thy mother was in travail with thee, There was she in travail that brought thee forth.

Geneva Bible 1599

(Who is this that commeth vp out of the wildernesse, leaning vpon her welbeloued?) I raysed thee vp vnder an apple tree: there thy mother conceiued thee: there she coceiued that bare thee.

Darby Translation

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awoke thee under the apple-tree: There thy mother brought thee forth; There she brought thee forth [that] bore thee.

Young's Literal Translation

Who [is] this coming from the wilderness, Hasting herself for her beloved? Under the citron-tree I have waked thee, There did thy mother pledge thee, There she gave a pledge [that] bare thee.

Bible in Basic English

Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

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Cross references

“Who is this”

Song of Solomon 3:6 Song of Solomon 6:10

Song of Solomon 3:6 · BSB

Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?

Song of Solomon 6:10 · BSB

Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?

“from the”

Isaiah 40:3 Psalm 107:2–8 Isaiah 43:19 Jeremiah 2:2 Song of Solomon 4:8 Revelation 12:6

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.

Psalm 107:2–8 · BSB

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

Isaiah 43:19 · BSB

Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

Jeremiah 2:2 · BSB

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Song of Solomon 4:8 · BSB

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

Revelation 12:6 · BSB

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.

“leaning”

Psalm 63:8 Micah 3:11 2 Chronicles 32:8 John 13:23 1 Peter 1:21 Isaiah 36:6

Psalm 63:8 · BSB

My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.

Micah 3:11 · BSB

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

2 Chronicles 32:8 · BSB

With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

John 13:23 · BSB

One of His disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at His side.

1 Peter 1:21 · BSB

Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.

Isaiah 36:6 · BSB

Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

“I raised”

Song of Solomon 2:3 Hosea 12:4 John 1:48–51

Song of Solomon 2:3 · BSB

Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

Hosea 12:4 · BSB

Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there —

John 1:48–51 · BSB

“How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”

“there she”

Song of Solomon 3:4 Song of Solomon 8:1 Song of Solomon 3:11 Isaiah 49:20–23 Romans 7:4 Galatians 4:19

Song of Solomon 3:4 · BSB

I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.

Song of Solomon 8:1 · BSB

O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

Song of Solomon 3:11 · BSB

Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding— the day of his heart’s rejoicing.

Isaiah 49:20–23 · BSB

Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’

Romans 7:4 · BSB

Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

Galatians 4:19 · BSB

My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

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

In context

4O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

6Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.

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