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Song of Solomon 2:7-9
Contemporary English Version

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
9     like a deer or a gazelle.
Now he stands outside our wall,
looking through the window

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
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Song of Songs 2:7-9
New International Version

7 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you(A)
    by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
    until it so desires.(B)

8 Listen! My beloved!
    Look! Here he comes,
leaping across the mountains,
    bounding over the hills.(C)
9 My beloved is like a gazelle(D) or a young stag.(E)
    Look! There he stands behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
    peering through the lattice.

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