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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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
haste	בְּרַ֣ח be.Rach	H1272	to bolt · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
beloved	דּוֹדִ֗י do.Di	H1730	(figuratively) to love · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
like	וּֽדְמֵה u.de.meh-	H1819	to compare · conjunction + verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
roe	לִצְבִי֙ litz.Vi	H6643	splendor (as conspicuous) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
young	לְעֹ֣פֶר le.'O.fer	H6082	a fawn (from the dusty color) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
hart	הָֽאַיָּלִ֔ים ha.'ai.ya.Lim	H354	a stag or male deer · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
mountains	הָרֵ֥י ha.Rei	H2022	a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figurative… · noun, common masculine plural construct
spices	בְשָׂמִֽים ve.sa.Mim	H1314	fragrance · noun, common masculine plural absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

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.
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…
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 ta…
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.
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:

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Commentary

John Gill on Song of Solomon 8:14

Make haste, my beloved,.... These are the words of the church, to Christ, calling him her "beloved"; a title often used in this Song, see Sol 1:13; and is continued to the last; for Christ was still the object of her love; and she had now a comfortable sense of her interest in him, and claimed it; and makes use of this title, not only to distinguish him from others, but to obtain her request the more easily, that he would "make haste", and come; which may either be understood of his speedy coming in the flesh, and appearing on Mount Zion and in the temple, where the spicy and sweet smelling incense was offered; or of his spiritual presence, in his house and upon the mountains, and in all the…

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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Song of Solomon 8:14

Come away, my love! She invites him to follow her, and he chases her with all the robust and exhilarating speed of a gazelle (see 2:8-10). • mountains of spices: Cp. 4:6.

Rashi on Song of Solomon 8:14

Flee my beloved. From this exile, and redeem us from among them. And be like a gazelle. To hasten the redemption, and to cause Your Divine Presence to rest—Upon the mountains of spices. This is Mount Moriyah and the Beis Hamikdosh, may it be rebuilt speedily and in our days, Amen.

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The Church Fathers

It urges that the bridegroom flee, because already, although it is of earth, it can follow him in his flight. It says this so that it may be like the young deer that escapes the nets; for it desires also to flee and to fly away above the world.
— Ambrose of Milan, DEATH AS A GOOD 5:18

Christ, detested by coiling snakes and beset by reptiles crawling on the earth, flees from the barren plain; he knows no dwelling except the heights of virtue; he knows no home except among those daughters of the church who can say, "We are a sweet fragrance of Christ to God." For some indeed, it is an odor of death, leading to death, for those who perish; but to others, it is an odor of life, leading to life—in those namely, who with living faith, breathe the fragrance of the Lord's resurrection.
— Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Virginity 9:49

By saying "Flee, my beloved," Christ makes heard the voice that he desires to hear. Through this, it is confessed that he alone on the earth, alone among all humankind (true man, but born in an ineffable manner), alone found to be a foreigner and pilgrim, alone fleeing the sordid lifestyle of humanity, alone ascending upon the prophesied "mountains of spices," he alone in every way is made Lord of heaven and earth. It shows that he alone fled both interior and exterior sin. He alone, who would bind the devil, fugitive of heaven, is himself a fugitive of the earth in the midst of a perverse and depraved nation.
— Aponius, EXPOSITION OF SONG OF SONGS 12:83

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Roe — (Heb. tsebi), properly the gazelle (Arab. ghazal), permitted for food (Deut. 14:5; comp. Deut. 12:15, 22; 15:22; 1 Kings 4:23), noted for its swiftness and beauty and grace of form (2 Sam. 2:18; 1…
Deer · Fleetness of — Fleetness of
Hart, The · Illustrative: Of Christ — Illustrative: Of Christ
Mountains · Abounded with: Spices — Abounded with: Spices

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).