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2. The Second Quest - Love Sought & Found in the Country (2:8 - 3:5)
(b. Man Invites Woman to Countryside -- 2:8-17)


Abishag (2:8-9)

⁸ The voice of my beloved!
behold,
he cometh leaping upon the mountains,
skipping upon the hills.
⁹ My beloved is like a roe or a young hart:
behold,
he standeth behind our wall,
he looketh forth at the windows,
shewing himself through the lattice.

Solomon (2:10-15)

¹⁰ My beloved spake,
and said unto me,
Rise up,
my love, my fair one,
and come away.
¹¹ For, lo, the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone;
¹² The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
¹³ The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
Arise,
my love, my fair one,
and come away.
¹⁴ O my dove,
that art in the clefts of the rock,
in the secret places of the stairs,
let me see [this] thy countenance,
let me hear [this] thy voice;
for sweet is thy voice,
and thy countenance is comely.
¹⁵ Take us the foxes,
the little foxes,
that spoil the vines:
for our vines have tender grapes.

Abishag (2:16-17)

¹⁶ My beloved is mine,
and I am his:
he feedeth among the lilies.
¹⁷ Until [that] the day break,
and the shadows flee away,
turn, my beloved,
and be thou like a roe or a young hart
upon the mountains of Bether.