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Song of Solomon 2:2
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Like a lily among thorns,so is my darling among the young women.
As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters. Beloved
He
As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women."Like a lily among the thorns, So is my darling among the young women."
Among the young women, my darling is like a lily among thorns!
"Like the lily among the thorns, So are you, my darling, among the maidens."
As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters. Beloved
Like a lilie amog the thornes, so is my loue among the daughters.
"Like a lily among the thorns,So is my darling among the daughters."
Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.
He Speaks: My darling, when compared with other young women, you are a lily among thorns.
[He]
Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the other women.As the lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.
My darling, among other women, you are like a lily among thorns!
Like the lilies among thorns, so is my beloved among the daughters.
The Man
Like a lily among thorns is my darling among women.Like a lily among the thorns, so is my love among the maidens.
As a lily among thorns, so is My love among the daughters.
as the rose amonge the thornes, so is my loue amonge the daughters.
As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.
As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.
As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
As the lillie among thornes, so is my loue among the daughters.
As the lillie among the thornes: so is my loue among the daughters.
As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.
As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
As a lilie among thornes, so is my frendesse among douytris.
As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.
As the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the daughters.
The Lover to His Beloved:
Like a lily among the thorns, so is my darling among the maidens.Like a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.
Young Man
Like a lily among thistles is my darling among young women."Like a lily among the thorns, so is my loved one among the young women."
As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens.
HEAs a lily among thorns, So, is my fair one, among the daughters!
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens.
So [is] my friend among the daughters!
The Man
A lotus blossoming in a swamp of weeds— that's my dear friend among the girls in the village."Like a lily among the thorns, So is my darling among the maidens."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Isaiah 55:13, Matthew 6:28, Matthew 6:29, Matthew 10:16, Philippians 2:15, Philippians 2:16, 1 Peter 2:12
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 23:6 - thorns 2 Kings 14:9 - The thistle Psalms 45:11 - So shall Song of Solomon 1:9 - O my Song of Solomon 6:1 - O thou Song of Solomon 6:2 - and to Hosea 14:5 - he shall
Cross-References
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord , honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the daughters. These are manifestly the words of Christ concerning his church, whom he calls "my love", :-; and was his love still, though in such company, and in such an uncomfortable condition. In what sense she is comparable to a lily has been shown in Song of Solomon 2:1; but here she is compared to one among "thorns": by which may be meant wicked men, comparable to thorns for their unfruitfulness and unprofitableness; for their being hurtful and pernicious to good men; and for their end, which is to be burned; especially persecutors of religion, who are very distressing to the saints who dwell among them; see 2 Samuel 23:6; and her being among such serves for a foil, to set off her excellency the more: and the simile is designed, not so much to observe that Christ's lily grows among thorns, as to show that the church is as preferable to such persons as a lily is to thorns; which is justly remarked by Carolus Maria de Veil; and which sense the comparison requires, as appears by the reddition, so is "my love among the daughters": the nations and men of the world, and even carnal professors, members of the visible church, whom she as much exceeds in beauty, grace, and fruitfulness, as the lily exceeds thorns. Ainsworth thinks the "woodbind" or "honeysuckle" is meant, which grows in thorn hedges, and is sometimes called "lilium inter spinas", as Mercer observes; this is indeed of a sweet smell, yet very weak, and cannot support itself; and therefore twists and wraps itself about other trees, their twigs and branches, "convolvens se adminiculis quibuscunque", as Pliny h says; hence we call it "woodbind", and for the same reason its name in Greek is "periclymenon"; so saints are of a sweet fragrance to Christ, and, weak in themselves, cannot support themselves; yet they twine about Christ, lean on him, and are upheld by him, and depend on him for all good things. But it is the same word as in Song of Solomon 2:1, and may be rendered "lily" here as there; and not a "rose", as it is in the Targum, from which it is there distinguished. The lily is often mentioned in this love song; it is said to be the delight of Verus i. Some call it "ambrosia".
h Nat. Hist. l. 27. c. 12. i Nicander apud Athenaeum, l. 15. c. 8. p. 683.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The king resumes, taking up the bride’s comparison: “As the lily excels in beauty the thorny shrubs among which it grows, so my friend excels her companions.”
