Song of Solomon 2

1 I am [like] [MET] a flower/rose from the Sharon [Plain], and [like] [MET] a lily [that grows] in a valley.

I [am] the rose of Sharon, [and] the lily of the valleys.

2 Among the [other] young women, the one whom I love is like [MET] a lily [growing] among thorns!

As the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the daughters.

3 And among [the other] men, you, the man who loves me, are like [MET] an apple/fruit tree [that grows] in the forest. [You are like a tree whose] shadow [protects me from the sun], and your [being close to me] [EUP] is like [MET] eating sweet fruit.

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.

4 You led me to the (banquet room/room where we could make love), and it is evident that you love me very much.

He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me [was] love.

5 Refresh me and strengthen me [with your lovemaking] [like I am refreshed by eating] [MET, EUP] raisins and other fruit, because I very much desire that you love me even more.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I [am] sick with love.

6 Put your left arm under my head and with your right arm hold me close.

His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

7 You young women of Jerusalem, solemnly promise me, while the does and gazelles [are listening], that you will not disturb us while we are making love until we are ready to quit.

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not, nor awake [my] love, till he please.

8 I hear the voice of the man who loves me. [It is as though] [MET] he is leaping over the mountains and skipping over the hills

The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

9 like [SIM] a deer or a gazelle. Now he is standing outside the wall of our house, looking in the window, and peering through the (lattice/wooden strips inside the window frame).

My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.

10 He spoke to me and said, “You whom I love, get up; my beautiful one, come with me [CHI]!

My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

11 Look, the (winter/cold season) is ended; the rain has stopped;

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone.

12 flowers are blooming throughout the country/land. It is now time to sing; we hear the doves cooing.

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

13 There are young/new figs on the fig trees, and there are blossoms on the grapevines and their fragrance fills the air. You whom I love, get up; my beautiful one, come with me!

The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines [with] the tender grape give a [good] smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

14 [You are like] [MET] a dove that is hiding [far from me] in an opening/crack in the rocky cliff. Show me your face, and allow me to hear your voice, because your voice is sweet-sounding and your face is lovely [CHI].”

O my dove, [that art] in the clefts of the rock, in the secret [places] of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy countenance [is] comely.

15 [There are other men who are like] [MET] little jackals/foxes that ruin vineyards; do not allow [those men to attack me].

Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines [have] tender grapes.

16 You who love me, I belong to you and you belong to me, and you [experience pleasure when you kiss] my lips [like] [MET] a shepherd enjoys taking care of his sheep.

My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his: he feedeth among the lilies.

17 You who love me, come and be like [SIM] a gazelle or like a young deer on the hills of Bether, and then flee like a deer at dawn [tomorrow morning], when the darkness fades.

Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.