the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Song of Solomon 8:14
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"Hurry, my beloved,And be like a gazelle or a young stagOn the mountains of spices."
"Hurry, my beloved, And be like a gazelle or a young stag On the mountains of spices."
O get thee away my loue, and be as a roe or a young hart vpon the sweete smellyng mountaynes.
Haste, my beloved, And be thou like a gazelle or a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.
Make haste, my beloved, And be like a gazelle Or a young stag On the mountains of spices.
Hurry, my Beloved, and be like a gazelle, or a young deer, the stag, on the mountains of spices.
Hurry, my lover! Be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spice.
Make haste, my beloued, and be thou like to a Roe, or to a yong Hart vpon the mountaines of spices.
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
O get the awaye (my loue) as a roo or a yonge hert vnto the swete smellinge moutaynes.
The Woman
Run to me, dear lover. Come like a gazelle. Leap like a wild stag on the spice mountains."Hurry, my beloved and come quickly, Like a gazelle or a young stag [taking me home] On the mountains of spices."
Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.
Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.
Hurry, my beloved, And be like a roe or to a young hart On the mountains of spices.
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
The Beloved to Her Lover:
Make haste, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.She Speaks: Hurry to me, my darling! Run faster than a deer to mountains of spices.
[She]
— Flee, my darling! Be like a gazelle or young stag on the mountains of spices!O my welbeloued, flee away, and be like vnto the roe, or to the yong harte vpon ye mountaines of spices.
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a gazelle or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Young Woman
Come away, my love! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices."Hurry, my love. Be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spices."
Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe or a fawn on the mountains of spices.
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices!
SHECome quickly, my beloved, and resemble thou a gazelle, or a young stag, upon the mountains of balsam-trees.
Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.
Flee, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the perfumed mountains!
She
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices."Hurry, my beloved, And be like a gazelle or a young stag On the mountains of balsam trees!"
Hurry, my lover, be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains where spices grow.
The Woman
Come to me, my lover, like a gazelle, like a young stag on the mountains where spices grow.W Hurry to me, my love, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
My derlyng, fle thou; be thou maad lijk a capret, and a calf of hertis, on the hillis of swete smellynge spices.
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices.
Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Make haste: Heb. Flee away, Song of Solomon 2:17, Luke 19:12, Philippians 1:23, Revelation 22:17, Revelation 22:20
Reciprocal: Genesis 43:11 - spices Judges 5:28 - Why is 2 Samuel 2:18 - a wild roe 1 Chronicles 12:8 - as swift as the roes upon the mountains Proverbs 5:19 - as the Song of Solomon 2:9 - like Acts 9:36 - Dorcas Ephesians 5:32 - speak
Cross-References
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Make haste, my beloved,.... These are the words of the church, to Christ, calling him her "beloved"; a title often used in this Song, see Song of Solomon 1:13; and is continued to the last; for Christ was still the object of her love; and she had now a comfortable sense of her interest in him, and claimed it; and makes use of this title, not only to distinguish him from others, but to obtain her request the more easily, that he would "make haste", and come; which may either be understood of his speedy coming in the flesh, and appearing on Mount Zion and in the temple, where the spicy and sweet smelling incense was offered; or of his spiritual presence, in his house and upon the mountains, and in all the assemblies of Zion, where the prayers and praises of the saints go up to God, as sweet odours, perfumed with the incense of Christ's mediation: or the petition may respect the first spread of the Gospel throughout the Gentile world; which, being like a box of ointment opened, would diffuse the savour of the knowledge of Christ everywhere: or rather it expresses the breathings of the New Testament church after the second coming of Christ, being the last petition of the church in this Song; and with which she closes it, as John does the Revelation, and with it the whole canon of Scripture in like manner, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus", that is, come quickly: and when the church says "make haste", she does not desire Christ to come before the appointed time, nor will he; his coming may and will be hastened indeed, yet in his own time; but it shows her eager and earnest desire after it, being as it were impatient for it. The word, may be rendered, "flee away" m; not that the church desired Christ to depart from her; she valued his presence at another rate; but she being weary of a sinful troublesome world, and breathing after everlasting rest in another, desires him to remove from hence, and take her with him to heaven, where she might enjoy his presence without any disturbance;
and be thou like to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices; where spices and aromatic plants grow, as on Lebanon: of Christ, compared to a roe or a young hart, Song of Solomon 1:13- :. These creatures being remarkable for their swiftness n in running upon mountains and other high places, see Habakkuk 3:19; the church desires that Christ would be as swift in his motion as those creatures, and come quickly and speedily, and take her with him to the "spicy mountains", the heavenly state, and all the joys and glories of it; and there have everlasting and uninterrupted communion with Christ; be out of the reach of every troublesome enemy; be in the utmost safety and security; and in the possession of pleasures that will never end. This state may be expressed by "mountains of spices": because of the height and sublimity of it; and because of the permanency and everlasting duration of it; and because of its delightfulness and pleasantness; where will be fulness of joy, and pleasures for evermore.
m ברה φυγε, Sept. "fuge", V. L, Pagninus, Montanus, & alii. n "Veloces cervos", Virgil. Aeneid. l. 5. Vid. Plauti Poenulum, Act. 3. Sc. 1. v. 26, 27.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The poem having opened with the song of a chorus in praise of the king Song of Solomon 1:2-4, concludes with a versicle recited by the bride, repeating the last words of her former strain Song of Solomon 2:17, with one significant change. She no longer thinks of the possibility of separation. The “Mountains of Bether” (division) of Song of Solomon 2:17, are now “Mountains of Besamim” (spices). His haunts and hers are henceforth the same (compare Song of Solomon 4:6).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Song of Solomon 8:14. Make haste, my beloved — These appear to be the words of the bride giving permission, but entreating him to speed his return. What these mountains of spices were, we cannot particularly tell; but they must have been thus named from their producing the trees on which the spices grew. They might have been the same as the mountains of Bether, Song of Solomon 2:17, or the mountains of myrrh, Song of Solomon 4:6; where see the notes. Song of Solomon 4:6.
Here ends the seventh night of the marriage week.
Thus ends this most singular book; the oldest pastoral in the world, if it may be ranked among this species of writing. To whatever species of composition it belongs, it is, beyond all controversy, the finest, the most sublime for imagery and colouring, that ever came from the pen of man.
In the preceding notes I have carefully avoided all attempts to spiritualize this song. My reasons I have already given in the introduction; and in the course of writing these short notes I have seen no cause to alter my opinion. Any man may allegorize it; that is an easy matter; for when he once considers it to be an allegory, his own creed will furnish him with enough to say, write, or preach, upon the spiritual meanings of every part, which will be an exhibition of his own confession of faith! But when he has finished his work, the question will recur, By what authority do you give it these meanings? And till the day of judgment none shall be able to say, "I have the authority of God for my exposition."
MASORETIC NOTES
Number of verses in Canticles, 117.
Middle verse Song of Solomon 4:14.
See Ancillary data for Targum or Chaldee paraphrase, on the Song of Songs.
Also
See Ancillary data for The Gitagovinda or the Songs of Jayadeva
