Song of Solomon 8:3-5

Revised Standard Version

³O that his left hand were under my head,
    and that his right hand embraced me!
⁴I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
    that you stir not up nor awaken love
    until it please.

Homecoming

⁵Who is that coming up from the wilderness,
leaning upon her beloved?

Under the apple tree I awakened you.
There your mother was in travail with you,
there she who bore you was in travail.

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