Song of Solomon 2  International Children’s Bible

2 I am a rose in the Plain of Sharon.
    I am a lily in the valleys.

² Among the young women, my darling
    is like a lily among thorns!

³ Among young men, my lover
    is like an apple tree among the trees in the woods!
I enjoy sitting in his shadow.
    His fruit is sweet to my taste.
⁴ He brought me to the banquet room.
    His banner over me is love.
⁵ Strengthen me with raisins.
    Refresh me with apples,
    because I am weak with love.
⁶ My lover’s left hand is under my head.
    And his right arm holds me tight!

⁷ Women of Jerusalem, promise me
    by the gazelles and the deer.
Promise not to wake love.
    Don’t excite my feelings of love
    until I’m ready.

⁸ I hear my lover’s voice.
    He comes jumping across the mountains.
    He comes skipping over the hills!
⁹ My lover is like a gazelle or a young deer.
    Look, he stands behind our wall.
He stares in through the windows,
    looking through the blinds.
¹⁰ My lover spoke. He said to me,
    “Get up, my darling.
    Let’s go away, my beautiful one.
¹¹ Look, the winter is past.
    The rains are over and gone.
¹² Blossoms appear through all the land.
    The time has come to sing.
    The cooing of doves is heard in our land.
¹³ There are young figs on the fig trees.
    The blossoms on the vines smell sweet.
Get up, my darling.
    Let’s go away, my beautiful one.”

¹⁴ My beloved is like a dove that hides in the cracks of the rock.
    She hides in the secret places of the cliff.
Show me your face.
    Let me hear your voice.
Your voice is very sweet,
    and your face is lovely.
¹⁵ Catch the foxes for us—
    the little foxes that ruin the vineyards.
    Our vineyards are in blossom.

¹⁶ My lover is mine, and I am his.
    He feeds among the lilies
¹⁷ until the day dawns
    and the shadows disappear.
Turn, my lover.
    Be like a gazelle or a young deer
    on the rugged mountains.