'I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys', and he answers, as a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. His banner over me was love. The first refrain to the daughters of Jerusalem: 'stir not up, nor awake my love, until it please', love refusing to be forced. Spring arrives in the Bible's loveliest weather report: 'the winter is past; the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come.' Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards. 'My beloved is mine, and I am his.'

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament.

Context

Poetry · Solomon — Song of Solomon overview

A. 1–7 The Rose of Sharon, and His Banner Over Me Was Love
B. 8–17 My Beloved Leaps Upon the Mountains: Rise Up, My Fair One

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Song of Solomon 83 verses
- Song of Solomon 8:4I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
- Song of Solomon 8:5Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
- Song of Solomon 8:14Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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Song of Solomon 23 verses
- Song of Solomon 2:10My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
- Song of Solomon 2:13The 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.
- Song of Solomon 2:17Until 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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Song of Solomon 52 verses
- Song of Solomon 5:2I 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.
- Song of Solomon 5:8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
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Song of Solomon 42 verses
- Song of Solomon 4:6Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
- Song of Solomon 4:7Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
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Isaiah 552 verses
- Isaiah 55:10For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
- Isaiah 55:12For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
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Luke 132 verses
- Luke 13:6He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
- Luke 13:32And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
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Song of Solomon 72 verses
- Song of Solomon 7:10I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.
- Song of Solomon 7:12Let 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.
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Song of Solomon 11 verse
- Song of Solomon 1:5I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
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