Song of Solomon 2:10 (LSB)

Passage

“My beloved answered and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along.

Nearby Context

Song of Solomon 2:8 “The voice of my beloved! Behold, he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, Jumping on the hills!

Song of Solomon 2:9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he is standing behind our wall; He gazes through the windows; He is peering through the lattice.

Song of Solomon 2:10 “My beloved answered and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along.

Song of Solomon 2:11 For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over; it is gone.

Song of Solomon 2:12 The flowers have appeared in the land; The time for pruning has arrived; And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "beloved", "answered", "said", "arise", "darling", "beautiful", "come", and "along". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "beloved" and "answered", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "My beloved is like a gazelle or..." into verse 11's "For behold the winter is past The...", so "beloved" and "answered" belong inside that flow. In Song of Solomon context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "beloved" and "answered" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.