Song of Songs 2:2

In 11 translations

BSB

Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.

KJV

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

WEB

As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

ASV

As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

LSV

So [is] my friend among the daughters!

YLT

So [is] my friend among the daughters!

DBY

As the lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

DRC

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

GNV

Like a lilie amog the thornes, so is my loue among the daughters.

JPS

As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

LXXE

As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

כְּשֽׁוֹשַׁנָּה֙ בֵּ֣ין הַחוֹחִ֔ים כֵּ֥ן רַעְיָתִ֖י בֵּ֥ין הַבָּנֽוֹת׃

LXX-Br

Ὡς κρίνον ἐν μέσῳ ἀκανθῶν, οὕτως ἡ πλησίον μου ἀναμέσον τῶν θυγατέρων.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• 1 Peter 2:12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
• Matthew 6:28–29And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
• Matthew 10:16Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
• Philippians 2:15–16so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the…
• Isaiah 55:13Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”

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