The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
The voice - an exclamation of joyful surprise, evidently after a long silence. The restlessness of sin (Song of Solomon 2:7) and the fickleness on her part had disturbed His rest with her, which she had professed not to wish disturbed 'until He should please.' He left her, but in sovereign grace unexpectedly heralds His return. She awakes, and at once recognizes His voice: her sleep is not so sinfully deep as in Song of Solomon 5:2.
Leaping - bounding, as the roe does, over the roughest obstacles; as the Father of the prodigal "had compassion and ran."
Upon the hills - as the sunbeams glancing from hill to hill. Historically, the coming of "the kingdom of heaven" (the gospel dispensation), announced by John Baptist, is meant: it primarily is the garden or vineyard, the bride is called so in a secondary sense. "The voice" of Jesus Christ is indirect, being heard through "the friend of the Bridegroom" (John 3:29), John the Baptist. Personally, He is silent during John's ministration, who awoke the long slumbering Church with the cry, "Every hill shall be made low," in the spirit of Elias on the 'rent mountains' (1 Kings 19:11; cf. Isaiah 52:7). Jesus Christ is implied as coming with intense desire (Luke 22:15), disregarding the mountain hindrances raised by man's sin. Solomon saw in the restoration of God's favour to Israel, as shown in the bringing up of the ark to Zion under David, and especially in the erection of the temple, and the uniting together in it of the ark and the brasen altar of the tabernacle, so long separated during God's alienation from His people (2 Chronicles 1:3-6; 2 Chronicles 4:1-22; 2 Chronicles 5:1-14; 2 Chronicles 6:1-42), a type of the coming perfect union of God and His people in Messiah, the anitypical ark and temple.