< Song of Solomon 2 >

1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
I [am] [the] crocus of Sharon lily of the valleys.
2 As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Like a lily between the thorns [is] so friend my between the daughters.
3 As an apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. Under its shadow I delighted to sit, and its fruit was sweet to my taste.
Like an apple tree among [the] trees of the forest [is] so lover my between the sons in shade his I desired and I sat and fruit his [was] sweet to palate my.
4 He hath brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me is love.
He has brought me into [the] house of wine and standard his over me [is] love.
5 'Stay ye me with dainties, refresh me with apples; for I am love-sick.'
Sustain me with raisin-cakes refresh me with apples for [am] weak of love I.
6 Let his left hand be under my head, and his right hand embrace me.
Left [hand] his [is] under head my and right [hand] his it embraces me.
7 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.'
I adjure you O daughters of Jerusalem by gazelles or by [the] does of the field if you will awaken - and if you will arouse love until that it will please.
8 Hark! my beloved! behold, he cometh, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
[the] sound of Lover my there! this [is] coming [is] leaping over the mountains [is] bounding over the hills.
9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart; behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh in through the windows, he peereth through the lattice.
[is] like Lover my a gazelle or [the] fawn of the deer there! this [is] standing behind wall our [is] gazing from the windows [is] peering from the lattices.
10 My beloved spoke, and said unto me: 'Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
He answered lover my and he said to me arise yourself O friend my beautiful [one] my and come yourself.
11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
For there! (the winter *Q(K)*) it has passed the rain it has passed away it has gone itself.
12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
The blossoms they have appeared in the land [the] time of pruning it has arrived and [the] sound of the turtle-dove it has been heard in land our.
13 The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines in blossom give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
The fig tree it has ripened early figs its and the vines - blossom they have given forth odor arise (yourself *Q(K)*) O friend my beautiful [one] my and come yourself.
14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.'
O dove my in [the] clefts of the rock in [the] hiding place of the steep place let see me form your cause to hear me voice your for voice your [is] sweet and form your [is] lovely.
15 'Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.'
Seize for us foxes foxes small [which] ruin vineyards and vineyards our [are] blossom.
16 My beloved is mine, and I am his, that feedeth among the lilies.
Lover my [belongs] to me and I [belong] to him who [is] grazing among the lilies.
17 Until the day breathe, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a gazelle or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Until that will breathe the day and they will flee the shadows turn be like yourself O lover my a gazelle or [the] fawn of the deer on [the] mountains of ravine[s].

< Song of Solomon 2 >