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Song of Solomon 2:9

Song of Solomon 2:9 is verse 9 of Song of Solomon chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

My 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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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.

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Song of Solomon 2:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

11 For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.

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Cross-references

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

Song of Solomon 2:17

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

Song of Solomon 8:14

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

1 Corinthians 13:12

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

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.

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.

2 Corinthians 3:15

And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:16

But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

2 Corinthians 3:17

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:14

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

Ephesians 2:15

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

Colossians 2:17

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

Hebrews 9:8

By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.

Hebrews 9:9

It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

Hebrews 10:1

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.

Hebrews 10:19

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

Hebrews 10:20

by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

Luke 24:35

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

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

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

John 12:41

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

1 Peter 1:10

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

1 Peter 1:11

trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

1 Peter 1:12

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

Revelation 19:10

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 prophecy.”

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