Song of Songs 2:8-13

New International Version

⁸Listen! My beloved!
    Look! Here he comes,
leaping across the mountains,
    bounding over the hills.^(A)
⁹My beloved is like a gazelle^(B) or a young stag.^(C)
    Look! There he stands behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
    peering through the lattice.
¹⁰My beloved spoke and said to me,
    “Arise, my darling,
    my beautiful one, come with me.
¹¹See! The winter is past;
    the rains are over and gone.
¹²Flowers appear on the earth;
    the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
    is heard in our land.
¹³The fig tree forms its early fruit;^(D)
    the blossoming^(E) vines spread their fragrance.
Arise, come, my darling;
    my beautiful one, come with me.”

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Song of Songs 7:10-12

New International Version

¹⁰I belong to my beloved,
    and his desire^(A) is for me.^(B)
¹¹Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside,
    let us spend the night in the villages.^[a]
¹²Let us go early to the vineyards^(C)
    to see if the vines have budded,^(D)
if their blossoms^(E) have opened,
    and if the pomegranates^(F) are in bloom^(G)—
    there I will give you my love.

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Footnotes

Song of Songs 7:11 Or the henna bushes

Song of Songs 8:6-7

New International Version

⁶Place me like a seal over your heart,
    like a seal on your arm;
for love^(A) is as strong as death,
    its jealousy^[a]^(B) unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
    like a mighty flame.^[b]
⁷Many waters cannot quench love;
    rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give
    all the wealth of one’s house for love,
    it^[c] would be utterly scorned.^(C)