Song of Songs 2:9-17

⁹my love is like a gazelle or a young deer! Look, he's there, standing behind our wall, looking through the window, peering through the screen.

¹⁰My love calls out to me, “Get up, my darling, my beautiful girl, and come away with me! Just look!

¹¹Winter has finished; the rains are over and gone.

¹²Flowers are blooming everywhere; the time when birds sing has come; the call of the turtledove is heard in the countryside.

¹³Fig trees start producing ripe fruit, while grape vines blossom, giving off their fragrance. Get up, my darling, my beautiful girl, and come away with me!”

¹⁴My dove is out of sight in the crevices of the rock, in the hiding places of the cliff. Please let me see you! Let me hear you! For you speak so sweetly, and you look so beautiful!

¹⁵Catch the foxes for us, all the little foxes that come and destroy the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom!

¹⁶My love is mine, and I am his! He feeds among the lilies,

¹⁷until the morning breezes blow and the shadows disappear. Come back to me, my love, and be like a gazelle or a young deer on the split mountains.