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(A)I adjure you, Daughters of Jerusalem,[a]
    by the gazelles and the does of the field,
Do not awaken, or stir up love
    until it is ready.

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  1. 2:7 Cf. 3:5; 5:8; 8:4. By the gazelles and the does: perhaps a mitigated invocation of the divinity based on the assonance in Hebrew of the names of these animals with terms for God.

(A)I adjure you, Daughters of Jerusalem,
    by the gazelles and the does of the field,
Do not awaken or stir up love
    until it is ready.

Read full chapter