Song of Solomon Capítulo 2
This poem describes the joy and ecstasy of love. Symbolically it has been applied to God's love for Israel and Chrit's love for the Church.
A Conservative Version
2 : 1 I am a rose of Sharon. A lily of the valleys.
2 : 2 As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.
2 : 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
2 : 4 He brought me to the banquet house, and his banner over me was love.
2 : 5 Sustain ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am sick from love.
2 : 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.
2 : 7 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake love, until it please.
2 : 8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
2 : 9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall. He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
2 : 10 My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
2 : 11 For, lo, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
2 : 12 The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
2 : 13 The fig tree ripens her green figs, and the vines are in blossom. They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
2 : 14 O my dove, who are in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the steep place, let me see thy countenance; let me hear thy voice. For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
2 : 15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards. For our vineyards are in blossom.
2 : 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his. He feeds among the lilies.
2 : 17 Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.