Song of Songs 2:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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  • 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.
  • Song 2:17 : 17 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.
  • 2 Sam 2:18 : 18 ¶ And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel [was as] light of foot as a wild roe.
  • Luke 24:35 : 35 And they told what things [were done] in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
  • John 5:39 : 39 ‹Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.›
  • John 5:46 : 46 ‹For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.›
  • John 12:41 : 41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
  • 2 Cor 3:13-18 : 13 And not as Moses, [which] put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty. 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.
  • Eph 2:14-15 : 14 ¶ For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us]; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;
  • Col 2:17 : 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.
  • Heb 9:8-9 : 8 ¶ The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9 Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
  • 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.
  • Heb 10:19-20 : 19 ¶ Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
  • 1 Pet 1:10-12 : 10 ¶ Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that should come] unto you: 11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
  • Rev 19:10 : 10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See [thou do it] not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

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    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.

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

  • Song 2:16-17
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    17 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.

  • Song 8:13-14
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    13 ¶ Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear [it].

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    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.

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  • Song 1:13-16
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    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 7:10-12
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    10 ¶ I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me.

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    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.

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  • Song 6:1-5
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    1 ¶ Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

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    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.

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    2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

    3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

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  • Song 2:3-4
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  • Song 4:5-9
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    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.

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    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.

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    15 His legs [are as] pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance [is] as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

    16 His mouth [is] most sweet: yea, he [is] altogether lovely. This [is] my beloved, and this [is] my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • Song 7:6
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    6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

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

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

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    6 ¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

  • Prov 5:19
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    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.