Songs, Chapter 2:

Verses from Songs, Chapter 2 of the book of Songs of the Bible.

• 1. I am a flower of Sharon, a lily of the valley.
• 2. Like a lily among thorns is my beloved among young women.
• 3. Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young. I delight to sit in its shadow; its fruit is sweet to my taste.
• 4. He took me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love.
• 5. Please sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am love-sick.
• 6. Let your left arm be under my head, and your right arm embrace me.
• 7. Women of Jerusalem, I make you swear by the gazelles and the deer of the field: do not awaken or provoke love until it wants it.
• 8. Listen! It's my beloved! See! Here he comes, leaping over the hills, leaping over the hills.
• 9. My beloved is like a gazelle, like a young deer. See! There he is behind our wall, watching through the windows, peering through the bars.
• 10. My beloved spoke and said to me: Arise, my dear, my beautiful one, and come with me.
• 11. See! The winter is gone; The rains are over and gone.
• 12. Flowers appear on the earth, and the time to sing has come; We can already hear the cooing of pigeons in our land.
• 13. The fig tree produces its first fruits; the vines bloom and spread their fragrance. Get up, come, my dear; my beauty, come with me.
• 14. My dove that is in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places, on the sides of the mountains, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is soft and your face is beautiful.
• 15. Catch foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in bloom.
• 16. My beloved is mine, and I am his; he shepherds among the lilies.
• 17. Return, my beloved, before the day breaks and the shadows flee; whether like a gazelle or like a young deer on the rugged hills.