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Song of Solomon 2:6-8
Contemporary English Version
Song of Solomon 2:6-8
Contemporary English Version
6 Put your left hand under my head
and embrace me
with your right arm.
7 Young women of Jerusalem,
promise me by the power
of deer and gazelles[a]
never to awaken love
before it is ready.
Winter Is Past
She Speaks:
8 I hear the voice
of the one I love,
as he comes leaping
over mountains and hills
Footnotes
- 2.7 deer and gazelles: Deer and gazelles were sacred animals in some religions of Old Testament times, and they were thought to have special powers.
Song of Songs 2:6-8
New International Version
Song of Songs 2:6-8
New International Version
6 His left arm is under my head,
and his right arm embraces me.(A)
7 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you(B)
by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.(C)
8 Listen! My beloved!
Look! Here he comes,
leaping across the mountains,
bounding over the hills.(D)
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