Songs 2:9
Good News Translation
My lover is like a gazelle, like a young stag. There he stands beside the wall. He looks in through the window and glances through the lattice.

New Revised Standard Version
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice.

Contemporary English Version
like a deer or a gazelle. Now he stands outside our wall, looking through the window

New American Bible
My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. See! He is standing behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattices.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.

like

Songs 2:17 Till the day break, and the shadows retire. Return: be like, my beloved, to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Songs 8:14 Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.

he standeth

1 Corinthians 13:12 We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.

2 Corinthians 3:13-18 And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made void. . . .

Ephesians 2:14,15 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh: . . .

Colossians 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ.

Hebrews 9:8,9 The Holy Ghost signifying this: That the way into the Holies was not yet made manifest, whilst the former tabernacle was yet standing. . . .

Hebrews 10:1,19,20 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect. . . .

shewing

Luke 24:35 And they told what things were done in the way: and how they knew him in the breaking of bread.

John 5:39,46 Search the scriptures: for you think in them to have life everlasting. And the same are they that give testimony of me. . . .

John 12:41 These things said Isaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

1 Peter 1:10-12 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you. . . .

Revelation 19:10 And I fell down before his feet, to adore him. And he saith to me: See thou do it not. I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Adore God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Context
The Bride's Admiration
8The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills. 9My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.10Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come.…
Cross References
Judges 5:28
His mother looked out at a window, and howled: and she spoke from the dining room: Why is his chariot so long in coming back? Why are the feet of his horses so slow?

Proverbs 5:19
Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?

Proverbs 6:5
Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

Proverbs 7:6
And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,

Songs 1:16
The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.

Songs 2:7
I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Songs 2:17
Till the day break, and the shadows retire. Return: be like, my beloved, to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Songs 3:5
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.

Songs 8:14
Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.

Songs 2:8
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