Song of Songs 2:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 4:6 : 6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
  • Song 8:14 : 14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
  • Luke 1:78 : 78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
  • Rom 13:12 : 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
  • Heb 8:5 : 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, [that] thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
  • Heb 10:1 : 1 ¶ For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
  • 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 ¶ We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
  • Song 2:8-9 : 8 ¶ The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. 9 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 4:5-9
    5 verses
    85%

    5 Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

    6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

    7 Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee.

    8 ¶ Come with me from Lebanon, [my] spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

    9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, [my] spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

  • Song 8:13-14
    2 verses
    84%

    13 ¶ Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear [it].

    14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

  • Song 2:6-11
    6 verses
    83%

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

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

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

    9 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.

    10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

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

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

  • Song 3:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    4 [It was] but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

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

    6 ¶ Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

  • Song 1:7-9
    3 verses
    78%

    7 ¶ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

    8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

    9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

  • Song 1:13-16
    4 verses
    78%

    13 A bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

    14 My beloved [is] unto me [as] a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

    15 Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes.

    16 Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed [is] green.

  • Song 6:1-5
    5 verses
    77%

    1 ¶ Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

    2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

    3 I [am] my beloved's, and my beloved [is] mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

    4 ¶ Thou [art] beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as [an army] with banners.

    5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

  • Song 7:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10 ¶ I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me.

    11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

    12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, [whether] the tender grape appear, [and] the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

  • Song 2:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13 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 ¶ 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.

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 ¶ I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

    2 ¶ I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night.

  • 19 [Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

  • 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

  • 1 ¶ Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

  • 4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please.

  • 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

  • 6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

  • 4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

  • Song 2:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

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

  • Song 5:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 ¶ What [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou fairest among women? what [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

    10 My beloved [is] white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

  • 10 Who [is] she [that] looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, [and] terrible as [an army] with banners?

  • 16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

  • 3 Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are] twins.