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Song of Solomon 2:11
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KJ21
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
ASV
For, lo, the winter is past; The rain is over and gone;
AMP
‘For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone.
AMPC
For, behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
BRG
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
CSB
For now the winter is past; the rain has ended and gone away.
CSBA
For now the winter is past; the rain has ended and gone away.
CEB
Here, the winter is past; the rains have come and gone.
CJB
For you see that the winter has passed, the rain is finished and gone,
CEV
Winter is past, the rain has stopped;
DARBY
For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over, it is gone:
DRA
For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone.
ERV
Look, winter is past, the rains have come and gone.
EASY
Look! The winter time has finished. The heavy rains have stopped.
EHV
Look! Winter is over. The rainy season has come to an end.
ESV
for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
ESVUK
for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
EXB
Look, the winter is past; the rains are over and gone [C spring has arrived, the time of love].
GNV
For behold, winter is past: the rain is changed, and is gone away.
GW
Look! The winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
GNT
The winter is over; the rains have stopped;
HCSB
For now the winter is past; the rain has ended and gone away.
ICB
Look, the winter is past. The rains are over and gone.
ISV
Look! Winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
JUB
For, behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone;
KJV
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
AKJV
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
LSB
For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over; it is gone.
LEB
For look! The winter is over; the rainy season has turned and gone away.
TLB
For the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
MSG
Look! Listen! There’s my lover! Do you see him coming? Vaulting the mountains, leaping the hills. My lover is like a gazelle, graceful; like a young stag, virile. Look at him there, on tiptoe at the gate, all ears, all eyes—ready! My lover has arrived and he’s speaking to me! Get up, my dear friend, fair and beautiful lover—come to me! Look around you: Winter is over; the winter rains are over, gone! Spring flowers are in blossom all over. The whole world’s a choir—and singing! Spring warblers are filling the forest with sweet strains. Lilacs are exuberantly purple and perfumed, and cherry trees fragrant with blossoms. Oh, get up, dear friend, my fair and beautiful lover—come to me! Come, my shy and modest dove— leave your seclusion, come out in the open. Let me see your face, let me hear your voice. For your voice is soothing and your face is ravishing.
MEV
For now the winter has past; the rain is over and gone.
NOG
Look! The winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
NABRE
For see, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone.
NASB
For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone.
NASB1995
‘For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone.
NCB
For see, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone.
NCV
Look, the winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
NET
Look! The winter has passed, the winter rains are over and gone.
NIRV
Look! The winter is past. The rains are over and gone.
NIV
See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
NIVUK
See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
NKJV
For lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone.
NLV
For see, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
NLT
Look, the winter is past, and the rains are over and gone.
NRSVA
for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
NRSVACE
for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
NRSVCE
for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
NRSVUE
for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
OJB
For, hinei, the winter is past, the geshem (rain) is over and gone;
RGT
‘For behold, winter has passed. The rain has ended and has gone away.
RSV
for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
RSVCE
for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
TLV
For behold, the winter has past, the rain is over, it has gone.
VOICE
Don’t you see? The winter is done. The rains and clouds have come and gone.
WEB
For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
WYC
for winter is passed now, rain is gone, and is departed away. (for the winter is now passed, finally the rains have gone away, yea, they have departed at last.)
YLT
For lo, the winter hath passed by, The rain hath passed away -- it hath gone.
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