Song of Solomon 2:9
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My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
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Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
Isaiah said these things because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about Him.
Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.
Then the two told what had happened on the road, and how they had recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread.
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.