# Song of Solomon 2 [[Song of Solomon 1|←]] • [[Song of Solomon 3|→]] --- ### 1 I the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valleys. ### 2 As the lily among thorns, so my love among the daughters. ### 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit sweet to my taste. ### 4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me love. ### 5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I sick of love. ### 6 His left hand 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 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 gone; ### 12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; ### 13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines the tender grape give a smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. ### 14 O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet thy voice, and thy countenance comely. ### 15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines tender grapes. ### 16 My beloved mine, and I his: he feedeth among the lilies. ### 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.