⁵ Save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand,
And like a ^(A)bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁹ My beloved is like a ^(A)gazelle or a ^(B)young ^[a]stag.
Behold, he is standing behind our wall,
He is looking through the windows,
He is peering ^(C)through the lattice.

^17 (A)Until the cool of the day, when the shadows flee,
Turn, my beloved, and be like a ^(B)gazelle
Or a young stag ^(C)on the mountains of ^[a]Bether.”

⁵ “^(A)Swear to me, you daughters of Jerusalem,
By the ^(B)gazelles or by the does of the field,
That you will not disturb or awaken my love
Until she pleases.”