Song of Solomon 3:5

American Standard Version

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

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Song of Solomon 3:5 in other translations

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
that you not stir up nor awaken love,
until it so desires.

Song of Solomon 3:5 · World English Bible

Song of Solomon 3:5 in context

  1. 3The watchmen that go about the city found me; To whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
  2. 4It was but a little that I passed from them, When 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.
  3. 5I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.
  4. 6Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?
  5. 7Behold, it is the litter of Solomon; Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty men of Israel.