My lover said to me, “Rise up, my darling! Come away with me, my fair 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.
- BSB My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
- 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.
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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 her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.”
- Song 4:7–8You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
- Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
- 2 Cor 6:17–18Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
- Ps 45:10–11Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
- 2 Cor 11:2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
- Rev 19:7–9Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”
- Song 2:8The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.
- Song 5:2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
- 2 Sam 23:3The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
- Jer 31:3Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
- Gen 12:1–3Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
- Matt 4:19–22He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”
- Ps 85:8I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
- Matt 9:9As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He 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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