Song of Songs 2:7
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Note I charge…: Heb. I adjure you
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- charge you
- Heb. adjure you.
- Matthew 26:63
- O ye
- Song of Songs 1:5; Song of Songs 5:8, 16
- by the roes
- Song of Songs 3:5; Proverbs 5:19
- ye stir
- Song of Songs 8:4; Ephesians 5:22–33