Song of Songs 2:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁷ I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
    by the gazelles or the wild does:
do not stir up or awaken love
    until it is ready!^(A)

⁸ The voice of my beloved!
    Look, he comes,
leaping upon the mountains,
    bounding over the hills.^(B)
9 My beloved is like a gazelle
    or a young stag.
Look, there he stands
    behind our wall,
gazing in at the windows,
    looking through the lattice.^(C)