Song of Songs 2:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 5:13 : 13 His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
  • Isa 35:1-2 : 1 The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers. 2 It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.
  • Hos 14:5 : 5 I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
  • Song 6:3 : 3 I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.
  • Ps 85:11 : 11 Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.
  • Song 2:16 : 16 My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 2:2-5
    4 verses
    88%

    2As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.

    3As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

    4He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.

    5Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.

  • Song 6:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

    2My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.

    3I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.

    4You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.

  • Song 2:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

    17Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

  • Song 1:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

    14My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

    15See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.

  • Song 2:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

    10My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

    11For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

  • Song 7:10
    74%

    10I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

  • Song 4:5-8
    4 verses
    74%

    5Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

    6Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

    7You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.

    8Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

  • Song 4:15
    74%

    15You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

  • Hos 14:5
    73%

    5I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

    2I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

  • Song 4:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

    13The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,

  • Song 1:7
    72%

    7Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

  • Song 7:12
    72%

    12Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.

  • Song 3:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

    6Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

  • Song 1:5
    72%

    5I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

  • Song 2:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my beautiful one, and come away.

    14O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

  • Song 7:6
    71%

    6How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

  • Song 5:10
    71%

    10My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.

  • Song 3:2
    70%

    2I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

  • Song 8:5
    70%

    5Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

  • Song 1:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

    2Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

    3Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

  • Song 8:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.

    14Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

  • Song 6:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

    11I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.

  • Isa 5:1
    70%

    1Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

  • Song 5:16
    70%

    16His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • Song 1:9
    70%

    9I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

  • Song 2:7
    70%

    7I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

  • Song 5:13
    70%

    13His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.