2:1 [She]* I am a rose** of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. / *Or He / **Probably a member of the crocus family
2:2 [He] Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the young women.
2:3 [She] Like an apple* tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste. / *Or possibly apricot; here and elsewhere in Song of Songs
2:4 Let him lead me to the banquet hall, and let his banner over me be love.
2:5 Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
2:6 His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
2:7 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
2:8 Listen! My beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
2:9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
2:10 My beloved spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me.
2:11 See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
2:12 Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
2:13 The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”
2:14 [He] My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
2:15 Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.
2:16 [She] My beloved is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies.
2:17 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.* / *Or the hills of Bether