Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Come down from Mount Amana, from the peaks of Senir and Hermon, where the lions have their dens and leopards live among the hills.
Parallel translations
- WEB Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
- KJV Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
- BSB Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
- NKJV Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, With me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions’ dens, From the mountains of the leopards.
- NASB “Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, You shall come with me from Lebanon. You shall come down from the summit of Amana, From the summit of Senir and Hermon, From the dens of lions, From the mountains of leopards.
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Quick answer
He calls his bride to come away with him from distant, dangerous heights. It is an invitation to leave peril and be with him.
Overview
Naming her "my bride," he summons her from Lebanon's peaks, the lions' dens, and leopards' mountains to join him. The call invites her from places of danger into the safety of his presence. So the Lord calls His people away from peril and into fellowship and security with Himself (Ps. 91:1-2; Col. 1:13).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Deut 3:9(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)
- 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.”
- Ps 45:10Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
- 1 Chr 5:23The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.
- Isa 62:5For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
- 1 Kgs 4:33He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.
- Song 7:11Come, my beloved, let us go out into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
- Josh 12:1Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
- Song 5:1I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.
- Ps 76:4Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
- Ps 76:1For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
- Deut 3:25Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon.”
- Prov 9:6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
- Col 3:1–2If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
- John 12:26If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor 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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