Song Of Songs Chapter 2 verse 8 Holy Bible
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills.
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The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.
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The voice of my beloved! Behold, he cometh Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills.
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The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
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The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, Leaping on the mountains, Skipping on the hills.
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The voice of my beloved! lo, this -- he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8-ch. 3:5. - Part II. SONG OF SHULAMITH IN THE EMBRACE OF SOLOMON. Recollections of the wooing time in the north. Verse 8. - The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. There can be little doubt as to the meaning of this song. The bride is going back in thought to the scenes of her home life, and the sweet days of first love. "The house stands alone among the rocks and deep in the mountain range; around are the vineyards which the family have planted, and the hill pastures on which they feed their flocks. She longingly looks out for her distant lover." The expression, "The voice of my beloved!" must not be taken to mean that she hears the sound of his feet or voice, but simply as an interjection, like "hark!" (see Genesis 4:10, where the voice of the blood crying merely means, "Hark how thy brother's blood cries;" that is, "Believe that it does so cry"). So here, "I seem to hear the voice of my beloved; hark, he is coming!" It is a great delight to the soul to go back in thought over the memories of its first experience of the Saviour's presence. The Church is edified by the records of grace in the histories of Divine dealings.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) The voice of my beloved.--So here there is no need of the clumsy device of supposing the heroine in a dream. This most exquisite morsel of the whole poem falls quite naturally into its place if we regard it as a sweet recollection of the poet's, put into the mouth of the object of his affections. "The voice" (Heb., kol), used to arrest attention = Hark! (Comp. Psalms 29) The quick sense of love discerns his approach a long way off. (Compare--"Before he mounts the hill, I knowHe cometh quickly."--Tennyson's Fatima.)
