Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Listen! My beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills. New Living Translation Ah, I hear my lover coming! He is leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. English Standard Version The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. Berean Standard Bible Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills. King James Bible The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. New King James Version The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills. New American Standard Bible “Listen! My beloved! Behold, he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, Jumping on the hills! NASB 1995 “Listen! My beloved! Behold, he is coming, Climbing on the mountains, Leaping on the hills! NASB 1977 “Listen! My beloved! Behold, he is coming, Climbing on the mountains, Leaping on the hills! Legacy Standard Bible “The voice of my beloved! Behold, he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, Jumping on the hills! Amplified Bible “Listen! My beloved! Behold, he comes, Climbing on the mountains, Leaping and running on the hills! Christian Standard Bible Listen! My love is approaching. Look! Here he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. Holman Christian Standard Bible Listen! My love is approaching. Look! Here he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. American Standard Version The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills. Aramaic Bible in Plain English The voice of my love: behold he comes skipping on the mountains, leaping on the hills Brenton Septuagint Translation The voice of my kinsman! behold, he comes leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. Contemporary English Version I hear the voice of the one I love, as he comes leaping over mountains and hills Douay-Rheims Bible The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills. English Revised Version The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. GOD'S WORD® Translation I hear my beloved's voice. Look! Here he comes, sprinting over the mountains, racing over the hills. Good News Translation I hear my lover's voice. He comes running over the mountains, racing across the hills to me. International Standard Version The voice of my beloved! Look! He's coming, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. JPS Tanakh 1917 Hark! my beloved! behold, he cometh, Leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. Literal Standard Version The voice of my beloved! Behold, this—he is coming, | Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills. Majority Standard Bible Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills. New American Bible The sound of my lover! here he comes springing across the mountains, leaping across the hills. NET Bible Listen! My lover is approaching! Look! Here he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills! New Revised Standard Version The voice of my beloved! Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. New Heart English Bible The voice of my beloved. Look, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills. Webster's Bible Translation The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. World English Bible The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills. Young's Literal Translation The voice of my beloved! lo, this -- he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Bride's Admiration…7O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right. 8Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills. 9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.… Cross References Song of Solomon 2:17 Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether. Song of Solomon 4:16 Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits. Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!" Treasury of Scripture The voice of my beloved! behold, he comes leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills. voice Song of Solomon 5:2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. John 10:4,5,27 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice… leaping 2 Samuel 6:16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart. Isaiah 35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. Jeremiah 48:27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. the mountains Isaiah 40:3,4 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God… Isaiah 44:23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel. Isaiah 49:11-13 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted… Jump to Previous Beloved Bounding Climbing Dancing Hark Hills Leaping Mountains Quickly Stepping VoiceJump to Next Beloved Bounding Climbing Dancing Hark Hills Leaping Mountains Quickly Stepping VoiceSong of Solomon 2 1. the mutual love of Christ and his church8. The hope 10. and calling of the church 14. Christ's care of the church 16. The profession of the church, her faith, and hope (8) The voice of my beloved.--So here there is no need of the clumsy device of supposing the heroine in a dream. This most exquisite morsel of the whole poem falls quite naturally into its place if we regard it as a sweet recollection of the poet's, put into the mouth of the object of his affections. "The voice" (Heb., kol), used to arrest attention = Hark! (Comp. Psalms 29) The quick sense of love discerns his approach a long way off. (Compare-- "Before he mounts the hill, I know He cometh quickly."--Tennyson's Fatima.) Verse 8-ch. 3:5. - Part II. SONG OF SHULAMITH IN THE EMBRACE OF SOLOMON. Recollections of the wooing time in the north. Verse 8. - The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. There can be little doubt as to the meaning of this song. The bride is going back in thought to the scenes of her home life, and the sweet days of first love. "The house stands alone among the rocks and deep in the mountain range; around are the vineyards which the family have planted, and the hill pastures on which they feed their flocks. She longingly looks out for her distant lover." The expression, "The voice of my beloved!" must not be taken to mean that she hears the sound of his feet or voice, but simply as an interjection, like "hark!" (see Genesis 4:10, where the voice of the blood crying merely means, "Hark how thy brother's blood cries;" that is, "Believe that it does so cry"). So here, "I seem to hear the voice of my beloved; hark, he is coming!" It is a great delight to the soul to go back in thought over the memories of its first experience of the Saviour's presence. The Church is edified by the records of grace in the histories of Divine dealings.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Listen!ק֣וֹל (qō·wl) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 6963: A voice, sound My beloved [approaches]. דּוֹדִ֔י (dō·w·ḏî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1730: To love, a love-token, lover, friend, an uncle Look! הִנֵּה־ (hin·nêh-) Interjection Strong's 2009: Lo! behold! Here זֶ֖ה (zeh) Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that he comes, בָּ֑א (bā) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go leaping מְדַלֵּג֙ (mə·ḏal·lêḡ) Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 1801: To spring across עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against the mountains, הֶ֣הָרִ֔ים (he·hā·rîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country bounding מְקַפֵּ֖ץ (mə·qap·pêṣ) Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 7092: To draw together, close, to leap, to die over עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against the hills. הַגְּבָעֽוֹת׃ (hag·gə·ḇā·‘ō·wṯ) Article | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 1389: A hillock Links Song of Solomon 2:8 NIVSong of Solomon 2:8 NLT Song of Solomon 2:8 ESV Song of Solomon 2:8 NASB Song of Solomon 2:8 KJV Song of Solomon 2:8 BibleApps.com Song of Solomon 2:8 Biblia Paralela Song of Solomon 2:8 Chinese Bible Song of Solomon 2:8 French Bible Song of Solomon 2:8 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Song of Solomon 2:8 The voice of my beloved! 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