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11 Look! Winter is past.
    The rain is over and gone.
12 Blossoms have appeared in the land.
    The season of songbirds[a] has arrived,
        and cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.
13 The fig tree has produced its fruit,[b]
    the grapevines have blossomed and exude their fragrance.

“Get up, my darling, my beautiful one, and come on.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:12 Or for pruning
  2. Song of Solomon 2:13 Lit. has ripened

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.

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