Song of Solomon 2:6

New Life Version

Let his left hand be under my head and his right hand hold me close."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
May his left hand be under my head,and his right arm embrace me.

Hebrew Names Version
His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.

King James Version
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

English Standard Version
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!

New American Standard Bible
"His left hand is under my head, And his right hand embraces me."

New Century Version
My lover's left hand is under my head, and his right arm holds me tight.

Amplified Bible
"Let his left hand be under my head And his right hand embrace me."

World English Bible
His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
His left hande is vnder mine head, and his right hand doeth imbrace me.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let his left hand be under my headAnd his right hand embrace me."

Berean Standard Bible
His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.

Contemporary English Version
Put your left hand under my head and embrace me with your right arm.

Complete Jewish Bible
[I wish] his left arm [were] under my head, and his right arm around me.

Darby Translation
His left hand is under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me.

Easy-to-Read Version
My lover's left arm is under my head, and his right arm holds me.

George Lamsa Translation
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

Good News Translation
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand caresses me.

Lexham English Bible
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

Literal Translation
His left hand is under my head, and His right hand embraces me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His left hade lyeth vnder my heade, & his right hande enbraceth me.

American Standard Version
His left hand is under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me.

Bible in Basic English
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let his left hand be under my head, and his right hand embrace me.

King James Version (1611)
His left hand is vnder my head, and his right hand doeth imbrace me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Set about me cuppes of wine, comfort me with apples, for I am sicke of loue.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
His left hand shall be under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

English Revised Version
His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
His left hond is vndur myn heed; and his riyt hond schal biclippe me.

Update Bible Version
His left hand [is] under my head, And his right hand embraces me.

Webster's Bible Translation
His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

New English Translation
His left hand caresses my head, and his right hand stimulates me.

New King James Version
His left hand is under my head, And his right hand embraces me.

New Living Translation
His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.

New Revised Standard
O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
His left hand under my head, then, his right hand, embraceth me!

Douay-Rheims Bible
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

Revised Standard Version
O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!

Young's Literal Translation
His left hand [is] under my head, And his right doth embrace me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Let his left hand be under my head And his right hand embrace me."

Contextual Overview

³ "Like a fruit tree among many trees, so is my loved one among the young men. With much joy I sat down in his shadow. And his fruit was sweet to my taste. ⁴ He brought me to his special large room for eating, and his colors over me were love. ⁵ Make me strong with cakes of dried grapes. Make me strong again with fruit, because I am sick with love. ⁶ Let his left hand be under my head and his right hand hold me close." ⁷ "I tell you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and deer of the field, you must not wake up my love until it is pleasing to her." "Listen, it is the voice of my loved one! See, he is coming! He is running over the mountains, jumping across the hills. My love is like a gazelle or a young deer. See, he is standing behind our wall. He is looking through the windows, through the wood cross-pieces. "My love speaks and says to me, ‘Get up, my love, my beautiful one, and come with me. For see, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone. The flowers are coming through the ground. The time for singing has come. The voice of the turtle-dove has been heard in our land. The fig tree has its fruits. The flowers on the vines spread their sweet smell. Get up, my love, my beautiful one, and come with me! O my dove, hidden in the rock, in the secret place in the mountain-side, let me see you. Let me hear your voice. For your voice is sweet, and you are beautiful. ‘Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that are destroying our grape-fields, for the flowers are on the vines. My love is mine, and I am his. He lets his flock eat among the lilies. Until the morning comes and the shadows hurry away, turn, my love. Be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Song of Solomon 8:3-5, Isaiah 54:5-10, Isaiah 62:4, Isaiah 62:5, Jeremiah 32:41, Zephaniah 3:17, John 3:29, Ephesians 5:25-29

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:27 - underneath Psalms 63:8 - thy Ecclesiastes 3:5 - a time to embrace Luke 5:34 - the children

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. The church, having desired to be stayed, supported, strengthened, and comforted, presently found her beloved with her, who with both hands sustained her; which shows his tender love to her, care of her, and regard for her; and is expressive of the near and intimate communion she had with him, as the effect of union to him, often enjoyed in his house and ordinances; likewise of blessings of every kind she received from him; temporal, mercies, or left hand blessings, which are necessary to support and carry through this wilderness; and spiritual, or right hand blessings, as justification, pardon, adoption, c. and, moreover, may denote the safety and security of the church, being encircled in the arms of her beloved, sustained by Christ's left hand, and embraced by his right hand, out of whose hands none can pluck. Some read the words prayer wise, "let his left hand be", c. b still desiring further tokens of his love to her, and more and nearer communion with him: others read it in the future, "his left hand will be", c. c "his right hand shall embrace", c. expressing the strength of her faith that she should for the future enjoy his gracious presence and that he would support her, that she should not sink and faint.

b Tigurine version, some in Mercer. Marckius so Ainsworth. c V. L. Pagninus Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The bride’s answer: “As the ‘tappuach’ with its fragrant fruit excels the barren trees of the wild wood, so my beloved his associates and friends etc.” תפוח tappûach may in early Hebrew have been a generic name for apple, quince, citron, orange etc.

Song of Solomon 2:4

His banner - As the standard is the rallying-point and guide of the individual soldier, so the bride, transplanted from a lowly station to new scenes of unaccustomed splendor, finds support and safety in the known attachment of her beloved. His “love” is her “banner.” The thought is similar to that expressed in the name “Jehovah-nissi” (see the Exodus 17:15 note).

Song of Solomon 2:5

Flagons - More probably cakes of raisins or dried grapes (2 Samuel 6:19 note; 1 Chronicles 16:3; Hosea 3:1). For an instance of the reviving power of dried fruit, see 1 Samuel 30:12.

Song of Solomon 2:6

Render as a wish or prayer: “O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand did embrace me!” Let him draw me to him with entire affection. Compare Deuteronomy 33:27; Proverbs 4:8.

Song of Solomon 2:7

Render: “I adjure you ... by the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up nor awaken love until it please.” The King James Version, “my love,” is misleading. The affection or passion in itself, not its object, is here meant. This adjuration, three times significantly introduced as a concluding formula (marginal references), expresses one of the main thoughts of the poem; namely, that genuine love is a shy and gentle affection which dreads intrusion and scrutiny; hence the allusion to the gazelles and hinds, shy and timid creatures.

The complementary thought is that of Song of Solomon 8:6-7, where love is again described, and by the bride, as a fiery principle.