Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
1 I am only a wild flower in Sharon, a lily in a mountain valley.
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I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
2 Like a lily among thorns is my darling among women.
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Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the young women.
3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my dearest compared to other men. I love to sit in its shadow, and its fruit is sweet to my taste.
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Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me to his banquet hall and raised the banner of love over me.
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Let him lead me to the banquet hall, and let his banner over me be love.
5 Restore my strength with raisins and refresh me with apples! I am weak from passion.
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Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand caresses me.
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His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
7 Promise me, women of Jerusalem; swear by the swift deer and the gazelles that you will not interrupt our love.
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Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
8 I hear my lover's voice. He comes running over the mountains, racing across the hills to me.
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Listen! My beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
9 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.
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My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
10 My lover speaks to me. Come then, my love; my darling, come with me.
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My beloved spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me.
11 The winter is over; the rains have stopped;
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See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
12 in the countryside the flowers are in bloom. This is the time for singing; the song of doves is heard in the fields.
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Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
13 Figs are beginning to ripen; the air is fragrant with blossoming vines. Come then, my love; my darling, come with me.
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The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”
14 You are like a dove that hides in the crevice of a rock. Let me see your lovely face and hear your enchanting voice.
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My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
15 Catch the foxes, the little foxes, before they ruin our vineyard in bloom.
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Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.
16 My lover is mine, and I am his. He feeds his flock among the lilies
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My beloved is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies.
17 until the morning breezes blow and the darkness disappears. Return, my darling, like a gazelle, like a stag on the mountains of Bether.
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Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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