Song of Solomon 8:14

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Song of Solomon 8:14, King James Version

Song of Solomon 8:14 in other translations

BSB	Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
WEB	Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
ASV	Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.
YLT	Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!
DARBY	Haste, my beloved, And be thou like a gazelle or a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.
BBE	Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.
Webster	Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

What does Song of Solomon 8:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. (See on So 2:17). As she began with longing for His first coming (So 1:2), so she ends with praying for His second coming (Psa 130:6; Php 3:20, 21; Re 22:20). Moody Stuart makes the roe upon spices to be the musk deer. As there are four gardens, so four mountains, which form not mere images, as Gilead, Carmel, &c., but part of the structure of the Song: (1) Bether, or division (So 2:17), God's justice dividing us from God. (2) Those "of leopards" (So 4:8), sin, the world, and Satan. (3) That "of myrrh and aloes" (So 4:6, 14), the sepulchre of Calvary. (4) Those "of spices," here answering to "the hill of frankincense" (So 4:6), where His soul was for the three days of His death, and heaven, where He is a High Priest now, offering incense for us on the fragrant mountain of His own finished work (He 4:14, 7:25; Re 8:3, 4); thus He surmounts the other three mountains, God's justice, our sin, death. The mountain of spices is as much greater than our sins, as heaven is higher than earth (Psa 103:11). The abrupt, unsatisfied close with the yearning prayer for His visible coming shows that the marriage is future, and that to wait eagerly for it is our true attitude (1Co 1:7; 1Th 1:10; Tit 2:13; 2Pe 3:12).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 14 Make haste, my beloved - These appear to be the words of the bride giving permission, but entreating him to speed his return. What these mountains of spices were, we cannot particularly tell; but they must have been thus named from their producing the trees on which the spices grew. They might have been the same as the mountains of Bether, Sol 2:17 (note), or the mountains of myrrh, Sol 4:6 (note); where see the notes. Here ends the seventh night of the marriage week. Thus ends this most singular book; the oldest pastoral in the world, if it may be ranked among this species of writing. To whatever species of composition it belongs, it is, beyond all controversy, the finest, the most sublime for imagery and colouring, that ever came from the pen of man. In the preceding notes I have carefully avoided all attempts to spiritualize this song. My reasons I have already given in the introduction; and in the course of writing these short notes I have seen no cause to alter my opinion. Any man may allegorize it; that is an easy matter; for when he once considers it to be an allegory, his own creed will furnish him with enough to say, write, or preach, upon the spiritual meanings of every part, which will be an exhibition of his own confession of faith! But when he has finished his work, the question will recur, By what authority do you give it these meanings? And till the day of judgment none shall be able to say, "I have the authority of God for my exposition."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Song of Solomon 8:14 in the original Hebrew

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בְּרַ֣ח\׀be.RachhastenH1272

דּוֹדִ֗יdo.DiO lover myH1730

וּֽדְמֵה\־u.de.meh-and be likeH1819

לְךָ֤le.Kha<for> yourself

לִצְבִי֙litz.Vi<to> a gazelleH6643

א֚וֹ'oorH176

לְעֹ֣פֶרle.'O.fer<to> [the] fawn ofH6082

הָֽאַיָּלִ֔יםha.'ai.ya.Limthe deer<s>H354

עַ֖ל'alonH5921

הָרֵ֥יha.Reimountains ofH2022

בְשָׂמִֽים\׃ve.sa.MimspicesH1314

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Cross references for Song of Solomon 8:14

Song of Solomon 2:17
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Revelation 22:20
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Song of Solomon 2:9
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
Philippians 1:23
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Song of Solomon 4:6
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
Luke 19:12
He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Make haste. Heb. Flee away.
2:17; Lu 19:12; Php 1:23; Re 22:17,20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Song of Solomon 8:13
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
Song of Solomon 8:14
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

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Song of Solomon 8:14 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Huye, amado mío; y sé semejante al gamo, ó al cervatillo, sobre las montañas de los aromas.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Fuis, mon bien-aimé, et sois semblable à une gazelle ou au faon des biches, sur les montagnes des aromates.
German Elberfelder 1871	Enteile, mein Geliebter, und sei gleich einer Gazelle oder einem Jungen der Hirsche auf den duftenden Bergen!
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreæ, hinnuloque cervorum super montes aromatum.