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 1 I *am* the rose of Sharon, *and* the lily of the valleys.

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

 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so *is* my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit *was* sweet to my taste.**

 4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me *was* love.*

 5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I *am* sick of love.*

 6 His left hand *is* under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

 7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake *my* love, till he please.*

 8 ¶ The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

 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.*

 10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

 11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over *and* gone;

 12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing *of birds* is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

 13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines *with* the tender grape give a *good* smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

 14 ¶ O my dove, *that art* in the clefts of the rock, in the secret *places* of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet *is* thy voice, and thy countenance *is* comely.

 15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines *have* tender grapes.

 16 ¶ My beloved *is* mine, and I *am* his: he feedeth among the lilies.

 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.*
 
[Song of Solomon 1](/study/song-of-solomon/1) [Song of Solomon 3](/study/song-of-solomon/3)

## Commentary

 To verse 1
 
What Shulamith now further says confirms what had just been said. City and palace with their splendour please her not; forest and field she delights in; she is a tender flower that has grown up in the quietness of rural life. 

1 I am a meadow-flower of Sharon, 

A lily of the valleys. 

We do not render: “the wild-flower,” “the lily,” ... for she seeks to represent herself not as the one, but only as one of this class; the definiteness by means of the article sometimes belongs exclusively to the second number of the genit. word-chain. מלאך ה may equally (*vid*., at [Song of Solomon 1:11](/kjv/song-of-solomon/1/11), Hitz. on [Psalms 113:9](/kjv/psalms/113/9), and my *Comm*. on [Genesis 9:20](/kjv/genesis/9/20)) mean “an angel” or “the angel of Jahve;” and בת ישׂ “a virgin,” or “the virgin of Israel” (the personification of the people). For hhǎvatstsělěth (perhaps from hhivtsēl , a denom. quadril. from bětsěl , to form bulbs or bulbous knolls) the Syr. Pesh. ([Isaiah 35:1](/kjv/isaiah/35/1)) uses chamsaljotho , the meadow-saffron, *colchicum autumnale*; it is the flesh-coloured flower with leafless stem, which, when the grass is mown, decks in thousands the fields of warmer regions. They call it *filius ante patrem*, because the blossoms appear before the leaves and the seed-capsules, which develope themselves at the close of winter under the ground. Shulamith compares herself to such a simple and common flower, and that to one in Sharon, *i.e.*, in the region known by that name. *Sharon* is *per aphaer*. derived from ישׁרון . The most celebrated plain of this name is that situated on the Mediterranean coast between Joppa and Caesarea; but there is also a trans-Jordanic Sharon, [1 Chronicles 5:16](/kjv/1-chronicles/5/16); and according to Eusebius and Jerome, there is also another district of this name between Tabor and the Lake of Tiberias, 

(Note: *Vid*., Lagarde, *Onomastica*, p. 296; cf. Neubauer, *Géographic du Talm*. p. 47.) 

which is the one here intended, because Shulamith is a Galilean: she calls herself a flower from the neighbourhood of Nazareth. Aquila translates: “A rosebud of Sharon;” but שׁושׁנּה (designedly here the fem. form of the name, which is also the name of a woman) does not mean the Rose which was brought at a later period from Armenia and Persia, as it appears, 

(Note: *Vid*., Ewald, *Jahrbuch*, IV p. 71; cf. Wüstemann, *Die Rose*, etc., 1854.) 

and cultivated in the East (India) and West (Palestine, Egypt, Europe). It is nowhere mentioned in the canonical Scriptures, but is first found in Sir. 24:14; 39:13; 50:8; Wisd. 2:8; and [Esther 1:6](/kjv/esther/1/6), lxx. Since all the *rosaceae* are five-leaved, and all the *liliaceae* are six-leaved, one might suppose, with Aben Ezra, that the name *sosan* (*susan*) is connected with the numeral שׁשׁ , and points to the number of leaves, especially since one is wont to represent to himself the Eastern lilies as red. But they are not only red, or rather violet, but also white: the Moorish-Spanish *azucena* denotes the white lily. 

(Note: *Vid*., Fleischer, *Sitzungs-Berichten d. Sächs. Gesell. d. Wissensch*. 1868, p. 305. Among the rich flora on the descent of the Hauran range, Wetstein saw (*Reisebericht*, p. 148) a dark-violet magnificent lily (*susan*) as large as his fist. We note here Rückert's “Bright lily! The flowers worship God in the garden: thou art the priest of the house.”) 

The root-word will thus, however, be the same as that of שׁשׁ , *byssus*, and שׁישׁ , white marble. The comparison reminds us of [Hosea 14:5](/kjv/hosea/14/5), “I shall be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily.” העמקים are deep valleys lying between mountains. She thinks humbly of herself; for before the greatness of the king she appears diminutive, and before the comeliness of the king her own beauty disappears - but he takes up her comparison of herself, and gives it a notable turn.

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