My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
Parallel translations
- WEB My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
- KJV My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
- NKJV My beloved spoke, and said to me: “Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away.
- NASB ¶“My beloved responded and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along.
- NLT My lover said to me, “Rise up, my darling! Come away with me, my fair one!
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Quick answer
He calls her to rise and come away with him. It is an invitation into shared joy and fellowship.
Overview
Addressing her as his love and his beautiful one, he summons her to leave and come with him. The call to "come away" speaks of invitation into deeper companionship. Christian readers have heard the gospel call of Christ to His people, inviting them to rise and follow Him into life and fellowship (Matt. 11:28; John 10:27).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Song 2:13The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
- Song 4:7–8You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.
- Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
- 2 Cor 6:17–18“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- Ps 45:10–11Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
- 2 Cor 11:2I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
- Rev 19:7–9Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.
- Song 2:8Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
- Song 5:2I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
- 2 Sam 23:3The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,
- Jer 31:3The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
- Gen 12:1–3Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- Matt 4:19–22“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
- Ps 85:8I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.
- Matt 9:9As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.
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The poetry of covenant love between bride and bridegroom pictures, at its highest, the love of Christ for his church — the Bridegroom who gave himself for his bride.
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