Song of Solomon 2:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² As the lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² But Solomon replied, Like the lily among thorns, so are you, my love, among the daughters.

American Standard Version (1901)

² As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

Common English Bible

² Like a lily among thornbushes, so is my dearest among the young women.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Groom: Like a lily among the thorns, so is my loved one among the daughters.

Song of Solomon 2:2 Cross References

1 Peter 2:12

Conduct yourselves honorably among the gentiles, so that, though they malign you as evildoers, they may see your honorable deeds and glorify God when he comes to judge.

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle, and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Song of Solomon 2:1

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

Song of Solomon 2:3

As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.