Song of Solomon 3:3-5

International Standard Version

³The watchmen who go all around the city found me.
    I asked,^[a] “Have you seen the one I love?”
⁴I had just passed them
    when I found the one I love.
I held him and wouldn’t let him go
    until I brought him to my mother’s house,
        to the room of the one who conceived me.

⁵Swear to me, young women of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or by the does of the field,
that you won’t awaken or arouse love
before its proper time!^[b]