Song of Solomon 2:8

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Song of Solomon 2:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.

7 O 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.

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

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.

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

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Song of Solomon 5:2

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 3:29

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.

John 10:4

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

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

John 10:27

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

Revelation 3:20

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.

2 Samuel 6:16

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

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

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

Luke 6:23

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.

Acts 3:8

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

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

Isaiah 40:3

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

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 44:23

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

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

Isaiah 49:12

Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”

Isaiah 49:13

Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

Isaiah 55:12

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.

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”

Luke 3:4

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.

Luke 3:5

Every valley shall be filled in, and every mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.

Luke 3:6

And all humanity will see God’s salvation.’”