^2:1 I am a rose of Sharon. A lily of the valleys. ^2:2As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

    ^2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste. ^2:4 He brought me to the banquet house and his banner over me was love.

    ^2:5 Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples, because I am sick from love. ^2:6 His left hand is under my head and his right hand embraces me.

    ^2:7 I swear to you^*, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roe-deers, or by the female-deers of the field, that you^* do not stir up, nor awake my love, until it pleases.

    ^2:8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.^2:9 My beloved is like a roe-deer or a young male-deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall. He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

    ^2:10 My beloved spoke and said to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one and come away. ^2:11 For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone. ^2:12 The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. ^2:13 The fig tree ripens her green figs and the vines are in blossom. They give forth their fragrance.

    Arise, my love, my fair one and come away. ^2:14O my dove, who are in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the steep place, let me see your countenance; let me hear your voice. Because sweet is your voice and your countenance is becoming.

    ^2:15 Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards. For our vineyards are in blossom.

    ^2:16 My beloved is mine and I am his. He feeds among the lilies. ^2:17 Until the day breathes cool and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved and be like a roe-deer or a young male-deer upon the mountains of spice {Bether}.