King James Version (KJV)
Song of Solomon 3:5
“I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please.”
Verse in context — Song of Solomon 3
The watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
[It was] but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please.
Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
Behold his bed, which [is] Solomon's; threescore valiant men [are] about it, of the valiant of Israel.
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A poetic celebration of love and intimacy, often seen as a picture of God’s love.
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