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Song of Songs 2:5-7
New Catholic Bible
Song of Songs 2:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 Strengthen me with raisins,
restore me with apples,[a]
for I am sick with love.
6 His left arm is under my head
and his right arm embraces me.
Bridegroom:
7 I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem,[b]
by the gazelles and the wild does:
Do not stir up or awaken love
before its time has come.
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 2:5 Raisins . . . apples: probably a reference to the affection and embraces of love.
- Song of Songs 2:7 This refrain also occurs in Song 3:5; 8:4. Daughters of Jerusalem: see note on Song 1:5.
