Song of Solomon 2:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.”
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“Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The voice of my beloved! lo, this--he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Song of Solomon 2:8 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 6:16As 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.
- Song of Solomon 2:17Before 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 5:2I 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.”
- Isaiah 35:6Then 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.
- Isaiah 40:3A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
- Isaiah 44:23Sing 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 49:11I will turn all My mountains into roads, and My highways will be raised up.
- Isaiah 52:7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
- Isaiah 55:12You 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.
- Jeremiah 48:27Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.
- Luke 3:4as 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 6:23Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.
- John 3:29The 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 10:4When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
- John 10:27My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
- Acts 3:8He sprang to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and leaping and praising God.
- Acts 14:10In a loud voice Paul called out, “Stand up on your feet!” And the man jumped up and began to walk.
- Revelation 3:20Behold, 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.
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