Song of Solomon 2:9

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“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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BSBPD

“My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: Behold, he standeth behind our wall; He looketh in at the windows; He glanceth through the lattice.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“My beloved <FI>is<Fi> like to a roe, Or to a young one of the harts. Lo, this--he is standing behind our wall, Looking from the windows, Blooming from the lattice.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Song of Solomon 2:9 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Judges 5:28Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
  2. 2 Samuel 2:18The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,
  3. Proverbs 5:19A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
  4. 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.
  5. Song of Solomon 8:14Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
  6. Luke 24:35Then the two told what had happened on the road, and how they had recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread.
  7. John 5:39You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
  8. John 5:46If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.
  9. John 12:41Isaiah said these things because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about Him.
  10. 1 Corinthians 13:12Now 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.
  11. 2 Corinthians 3:13We 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.
  12. Ephesians 2:14For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility
  13. Colossians 2:17These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
  14. Hebrews 9:8By 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.
  15. Hebrews 10:1For 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.
  16. Hebrews 10:19Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
  17. 1 Peter 1:10Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,
  18. Revelation 19:10So 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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