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Song of Solomon 2:9

Song of Solomon 2:9
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.

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Barnes' Notes

Song of Solomon 2:8-17

The bride relates to the chorus a visit which the beloved had paid her some time previously in her native home. He on a fair spring morning solicits her company. The bride, immersed in rustic toils,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

My belovedis like a roe or a young hart Preferably, like a gazelle or a young hart.

our wall The possessive pronoun here must, on the hypothesis we have adopted, refer to the Shulammite and the court…