Song of Songs 2:7

New Catholic Bible

⁷I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem,^[a]
by the gazelles and the wild does:
Do not stir up or awaken love
before its time has come.

Song of Songs 2:7 This refrain also occurs in Song 3:5; 8:4. Daughters of Jerusalem: see note on Song 1:5.

Song of Songs 2:7

New International Version

⁷Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you^(A)
by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.^(B)

New Catholic Bible (NCB)

New International Version (NIV)