ACV - Song of Solomon - 2

2:1  I am a rose of Sharon. A lily of the valleys.

2:2  As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

2:3  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.

2:4  He brought me to the banquet house, and his banner over me was love.

2:5  Sustain ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am sick from love.

2:6  His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

2:7  I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake love, until it please.

2:8  The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

2:9  My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall. He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

2:10  My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

2:11  For, lo, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.

2:12  The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

2:13  The fig tree ripens her green figs, and the vines are in blossom. They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

2:14  O my dove, who are in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the steep place, let me see thy countenance; let me hear thy voice. For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

2:15  Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards. For our vineyards are in blossom.

2:16  My beloved is mine, and I am his. He feeds among the lilies.

2:17  Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.