Shir Hashirim 3:3-5

Orthodox Jewish Bible

³ The shomrim (watchmen) that go about the city found me; to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my nefesh loveth?

⁴ Scarcely had I passed from them, when I found him whom my nefesh loveth; I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into the bais immi (the house of my mother), and into the cheder of her that conceived me.

⁵ I charge you, O ye banot Yerushalayim, by the gazelles, and by the deer of the sadeh, that ye arouse nor awake HaAhavah till it pleases [i.e., until its own time, see 2:7; 8:4].