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Song of Solomon 2:8
Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The female speaker interrupts her charge to the daughters of Jerusalem to report the sudden arrival of her beloved immediately after a command to wait.
The words — ק֣וֹל (Kol) denotes the sound or voice heard, while מְדַלֵּג (me.da.Leg) literally describes the action of leaping or bounding over terrain.
The thread — The mountain imagery echoes Isaiah 52:7 regarding feet on the mountains, the gazelle/stag metaphor continues in Song 2:17, and the theme of attentive listening parallels John 10:27.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that promised presence arrives unexpectedly, requiring immediate attention rather than passive waiting.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
Cross-references
- John 10:27 My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
- Song of Solomon 2:17 Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
- Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
- John 3:29 The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
- Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
- 2 Samuel 6:16 As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
- Song of Solomon 5:2 I 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.”
- Isaiah 35:6 Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
- Isaiah 40:3 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
- Isaiah 44:23 Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.